Meet Jessica Kendall, MPH
Jessica has extensive experience in community engagement, outreach and stakeholder involvement. She has led outreach and engagement efforts for Medicaid, CHIP, and Health Insurance Exchanges. She is a long-time community organizer with an in-depth knowledge of how consumers interact with systems. She’s worked at the local, state, and national level to improve the health of communities.
She believes that people possess their own wisdom and know what's best for themselves. Her approach when engaging clients and through facilitation is for people to share their ideas and insights, operating from the principle that meaningful change happens when people are empowered to speak for themselves.
Jessica’s current and previous clients include Washington’s Accountable Communities of Health, Oregon Coordinated Care Organizations, state agencies, community based organizations, as well as coalitions and cross-sector workgroups. She is a Hospital Commissioner for a Rural Hospital District in Washington state and holds a Master of Public Health from Portland State University and a B.A. from the University of Southern Maine. Jessica is the owner of Cascade Crest Consulting.
Reports
Believing strongly in collaboration and the importance of partnerships, for the last two decades Jessica has focused her work on identifying best practices and lessons learned in outreach and capacity building, and sharing those lessons with others at the national, state, and local level. She also provided technical assistance relating to program planning and design, reaching the justice involved population, and effective consumer related communication. Below are some examples of reports, presentations and publications she’s authored.
What Jessica’s Reading
Health system transformation needs to take place at the local, state, and national level. Below are some innovative reports that lift up successful ways to transform the health of communities, and how it can be approached through an equitable lens.