Dr. Jessie Brown was born in Tucson, Arizona where she attended the University of Arizona as a first-generation college student. She moved to NYC for graduate school at New York University and completed her PhD dissertation on quiescence and chemoresistance in skin cancer with Dr. Markus Schober at the Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. Today, she works in the lab of Dr. Adolfo Ferrando at Columbia University in the Institute for Cancer Genetics as the Candy and William Raveis Fellow of the Damon Runyon-Sohn Foundation Pediatric Cancer Award where she works on therapeutic resistance in relapsed pediatric leukemias.