Jesse graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2017 and began his masters in the fall of 2022. Growing up in a CRM firm in Memphis, he has over a dozen years of experience in the public sector and has excavated and surveyed across the Southeastern United States, as well as in the Levant, Morocco, and the Caribbean. His current interests include Southeastern and Caribbean Archaeology, Geographic Information Systems, Geoarchaeology and Site Formation Processes. He is working with his advisor, Dr. Shane Miller, on a spatial analysis of ceramic artifacts to assess the integrity of a critically endangered coastal site on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands.