Meet Jessica Fife, our Outreach Coordinator!

Jessica Fife, a Hoschton, GA native, has served as the University of Georgia Department of Poultry Science’s Outreach Coordinator since August 2016. Here, she leads the department’s recruitment initiatives, student affairs, marketing and communication efforts, alumni relations, and more. She is responsible for 19 student workers and an agricultural communications intern, and has promoted undergraduate possibilities in the department to over 11,000 middle and high school students across the nation to date. In addition, Jessica created Georgia’s first poultry science curriculum for high school agriculture education classrooms. She tirelessly aims to educate consumers, amplify undergraduate opportunities, and disseminate the importance of the poultry industry and world-renown work of her peers in the poultry science department.
Jessica received her B.A.S. in Diversified Agriculture from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and her Masters in Agricultural & Environmental Education from UGA. She is now pursuing a PhD in Agricultural Leadership, Education, & Communication from UGA. When the opportunity for spare time arises, she enjoys reading, hiking, and taking her rescued dachshund Albert on adventures.