Jessica Anderson holds a faculty appointment as Associate Professor. She earned her bachelor's in nursing from Viterbo University in Wisconsin, her master's in nursing (nurse-midwifery) from Marquette University in Wisconsin, and her post-masters certificate as a Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner and Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) from the University of Colorado College of Nursing. Jessica's professional interests include water birth, nitrous oxide for labor, women's health care policy, practice development, rural care, maternal mortality, substance use disorder, and doula care. She is active on committees with the Colorado Health Department, Colorado Hospital Association, and American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM). Jessica is currently chair of The Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative.

Jessica is currently the Director of Midwifery & Women’s Health Services at the College of Nursing. She supports the four nurse-midwifery and one women’s health nurse practitioner faculty practices across the Colorado front range. In addition, she teaches in the nurse-midwifery specialty program and DNP program. Jessica continues to actively practice and support multiple quality improvement projects and programs across the college and UCHealth system. Jessica’s current program work includes rural midwifery care, a recovery coach doula program, and virtual prenatal care.

Jessica has presented at local and national conferences including the ACNM Annual Meeting & Exposition, Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nursing National Conference, and American Academy of Family Practice Family Centered Maternity Care Conference on an array of topics including nitrous oxide, water birth, skin to skin, breastfeeding, and perineal suturing. In addition, Jessica is a nursing textbook contributor and has published several peer-reviewed articles.