Jessica Kinnersley was born and raised in Kankakee and is the District Director for State Representative Jackie Haas. She just celebrated 7 years working for the Illinois House of Representatives! One of Jessica's main duties is  assisting constituents resolve any issues that they may have with any state department and do the same with local agencies when necessary. She also helps the Representative with legislative tasks, and tracks constituent bill/vote requests.

She graduated from Kankakee High School and went on to get my Bachelors in Anthropology (Archaeology) and Psychology at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She then went on to get her Masters in Social Work from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.

Jessica is currently raising two little boys (Liam, 3.5 years and Ollie, 16 months) with her husband, Kent, in Kankakee.