Jessica Burylo is a Regional Outreach Coordinator for Elections Canada’s Inspire Democracy portfolio, where she collaborates with community organizations in Western Canada to reduce electoral barriers for electors with disabilities, new Canadians, and Indigenous electors. She has developed her expertise in community engagement, through past positions in  the public service, municipal committees, heritage foundations, and museum management in Alberta.

Jessica holds a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology with post-graduate studies in Heritage Resource Management. She is a graduate student at the University of Alberta where she focuses on the anthropology of disability in order to add learned experience to her lived experience as a person with a disability, working in advocacy.