Their dissertation explores how youth servicing organizations work to identity and meet the needs of LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness. They are specifically interested in the ways that non-profits that serve LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness, reproduce and/or prevent gender, sexual, and racial inequalities through their programs, practices, and policies. Currently Jesse is the Project Manager of a government funded research project that examines how non-binary individuals are challenging the binary gender structure. Additionally, over the past few years, Jesse has offered professional development courses to middle school and high school teachers, social workers, and staff on how to work with LGBTQ youth. During these seminars, Jesse calls attention to both the assumptions people make about gender, sex, and sexuality and the way in which these assumptions are problematic and harm young people. In additional to researching, teaching, and consulting, Jesse is currently the elected secretary of a National Advisory Board for Teach for American’s (TFA) LGBTQ+ Initiative, Prism and co-organizes one of Chicago’s only non-binary community groups, Subverting Gender.