About Jessica

Jessica Kalei Sheffield graduated in 2008 from the University of Florida with a BA in East Asian Language and Literature. Working as a contracted Educator for NASA at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Cape Canaveral FL from 2008 to 2010, she was soon accepted to Officer Candidate School (OCS) and joined the United States Navy in December of 2010.

  Following commission from OCS in March 2011, she landed a hot fill as OZ Division Officer onboard USS George Washington home ported in Yokosuka, Japan from 2011 to 2013. She earned her Information Dominance Warfare pin and qualified Anti-Terrorism Tactical Watch Officer, Officer of the Deck (In-Port), and FLAG Intelligence Watch Officer while completing two deployments and serving as MSI officer, SSES Officer, and INSURV Officer during her two-year tour. 

LTJG Sheffield went from sea billet to shore billet and spent three years at JIOCEUR Analytic Center in Molesworth, UK as the Maritime Watch Officer from 2013-2016. She started a self-help and analytical monthly cinema group called Bellinimation, which operated both locally and remotely during her three years in the UK. She also hosted the WWII Veteran march and POW/MIA remembrance ceremony for two years at the Twinwood Music Festival (https://twinwoodevents.com/ ). She also volunteered for an Individual Augmentee position in Shallow Fall for 6 months during this billet, returning to the UK with a Joint Commendation Medal (JCOM). During this time, she contracted with Frederator as a YouTube Illustrator and worked with Cleaver Creative as their Adobe Photoshop Expert at Watch Me Work. In the last year of her Navy billet, she uncovered systematic shortfalls and deliberate dereliction of duty being covered up by the security augmentation of the base and risked her career to bring attention to it, which earned her a second JCOM before departing the UK.

From 2016-2018 LT Sheffield served as Targeteer for Carrier Air Wing One at Naval Air Station Fallon, NV. She completed two deployments onboard USS Harry S. Truman within Carrier Strike Group Eight, earned 3A1 qualification, completed her O-4 milestone tour, completed the first draft of Clara & The Nutcracker, and managed a $25k renovation project for her Fernley property. Departing NV, LT Sheffield attended the three-month Asia Pacific Hands course at Naval Post-Graduate School Monterey before continuing to US Naval Forces Korea in Seoul, South Korea.