Ms. Jessica Bleile

Jessica (Jessie) Bleile started in her role as professor of practice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in January 2022, serving on behalf of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The overarching purpose of the role is to help fulfill the objectives laid out in the Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the agency and UMSL, signed into effect in 2021. Jessie is a St. Louis-area native and attended the UMSL for her undergraduate studies in mathematics. Jessie started at NGA as an intern in 2013 while seeking her Master’s degree in applied mathematics and certificates in GEOINT and GIS at the University of Missouri. She started full time upon graduation in 2016 as a geodetic orbit analyst, monitoring GPS satellites for accuracy and precision. Jessie also served as an academic outreach officer at NGA, where she used her passion for education and networking to connect NGA analysts and university students in St. Louis to collaboratively address some of the nation’s most pressing challenges.