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Jessa Bidwell (she/her) graduated from the Northwestern University Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling in 2022. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Neuroscience from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, in 2016. Jessa is a Research Genetic Counselor at the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine. She specializes in returning genetic results to generally healthy participants of large genomic studies. During the ART-GC program, Jessa aims to study the role(s) and utility of genetic counselors in the clinical-translational space, particularly clinical trials and gene therapy studies.