Jessica Ochoa Hendrix

Business leader, Change agent, Concerned citizen, Connector, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Musician, Parent, Producer, Project manager, Public servant, Scientist, Social entrepreneur, Startup

Jessica Ochoa Hendrix, CEO of Killer Snails, has worked in K-16 education since 2003. Prior to co-founding Killer Snails, she most recently worked as an educational consultant whose clients included Relay Graduate School of Education and the Charter Network Accelerator. Previously, she worked for Uncommon Schools as the Director of Organizational Learning as the network grew from sixteen to thirty two schools. Ms. Ochoa Hendrix received her MBA with a concentration in Social Enterprise from Columbia Business School and was awarded the prestigious Board of Overseers Fellowship and the Nathan Gantcher Prize for Social Enterprise. Additionally, she served as an Education Pioneer at the New York City Department of Education and worked with Brooklyn Prospect Charter School to launch the first Brooklyn Prospect in 2008. Prior to business school, she worked in marketing for the Harvard Business Review and The Economist, and taught for four years for The Princeton Review. She holds a BA from the University of Texas at Austin and is a proud alumna of Project Entrepreneur.

In addition to creating more educational science VR content, I hope to build a network of educational virtual reality creators developing content that integrates easily in the classroom.

Virtual reality can enable students to see themselves in new roles or careers, and make complex ideas much more understandable.

Education, Entrepreneurship, Project Management, Social Enterprise, Virtual Reality