Jessica Villeneuve
School Consultant and Events Director
Jessica is a consultant and coach currently enrolled in Brown University’s ACT LPCC Leadership Coaching Program. Before joining Starling Collaborative, Jessica was a school administrator. Before becoming a school principal, she began teaching high school Social Studies with a passion for awakening an understanding of justice, diversity, and global issues in young people. Her path toward Restorative Practices began when she brought Restorative Justice to her school community to target issues of inequity and conflict. She then began to present to a wider audience the powerful impact of these processes. She expanded the restorative model as an administrator, training teachers to implement restorative approaches in their classrooms, thereby decreasing behavior referrals and increasing the strength of the learning community. In the role of assistant principal and principal, her greatest joy was in working closely with families and community stakeholders to repair harm and work towards restoring relationships.
As someone who has taken on a wide range of roles in schools, from paraeducator to teacher to principal, Jessica brings a deep understanding of the complex challenges facing schools today and brings empathy and deep understanding to her work.