Jacqueline graduated from South Lakes High School at sixteen years old. She took classes at VCUArts (currently ranked #2 in American art schools) in Richmond, VA. After a drawing instructor commented that she could illustrate medical textbooks, she became interested in scientific research, enrolling in the University of Virginia as a biology major.

A Pell Grant awardee, a federal grant for Americans from low-income families, she earned a silver medal as part of UVA’s team in an international engineering competition. She and her team presented their research at a conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, MA and were featured in an episode of Dan Rather Reports. After graduating, she worked on a project at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX to develop treatments for wound infections acquired during the Afghanistan War. She completed her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, with her doctoral work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Quartile 1 in Multidisciplinary Science journals). She presented her research in Hamburg, DE at the 10th Congress of European Microbiologists. She plays classical guitar and lives in Texas, where she develops AI-based pipelines in the healthcare data industry.