Jessica received her training at School of American Ballet, Broadway Dance Center and STEPS in New York. She has also trained with Ann Reinking and Gwen Verdon at the Broadway Theater Project. As a student at SAB, she performed various ballets with New York City Ballet including the Nutcracker Movie with Macaulay Culkin, Coppelia, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, Harlequinade, Sleeping Beauty and Firebird. She then went on to perform in the touring cast of Broadway's Footloose at the age 16. She also worked as a back-up dancer for Tommy Boy Recording Artist, Amber.