DeMory Joins Arts & Sciences as Resource Analyst

Jessica DeMory

Jessica A. DeMory joined the Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences in June as Resource Analyst. She will be assisting the college’s Chief Financial Officer, April Henderson, with financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and research.

The resource analyst is a new position created as an innovative collaboration between University Finance and the College of Arts & Sciences.

While earning a Master of Public Administration, specializing in fiscal administration, from Northern Illinois University, DeMory spent two years the Village Manager’s Administrative Intern in Schaumburg, IL.  Her responsibilities included directing the implementation of the village’s first Municipal Electric Aggregation Program for 38,000 residents. She also was responsible for assembling the village’s Capital Improvement Program’s $22 million annual budget by prioritizing project requests, reviewing and reconciling financial statements, and forecasting project costs five years out.

DeMory arrived in Athens in June and instantly felt at home. “I love that it’s a small town but a giant campus—and that it has the 1800s feel with the cobblestones,” she says. “I also love the liberal arts and the diversity of programs in the college.” DeMory says her mini lop bunny, a rescue pet named Hunny Bunny, has also become an Athens resident.

DeMory says her interest in public service and her career path turned on two events in her undergraduate career at Knox College, where she earned a B.A. in Economics and doubled minored in Business Administration and Comparative Politics. At Knox, she co-founded a Best Buddies program that provided one-on-one friendships for intellectually and physically challenged people in the area. She also studied abroad at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Denmark. Her experiences allowed her to learn firsthand the roles played by federal and local governments in the daily lives of citizens, and her interest grew in helping at the local level.

In graduate school, DeMory focused on financial forecasting, public budgeting, and public accounting. In addition to managing all of her intern duties for the Village of Schaumburg, she also was the vice president of the NIU Public Administration Student Association. DeMory earned the David and Catherine Arnold Fellowship, and she was both a Rhoten A. Smith Scholar and an International City/County Management Association Edwin O. Stene Scholar.

In June DeMory was awarded the international Daniel B. Goldberg $10,000 scholarship at the 107^th Government Finance Officers Association Annual Conference in San Francisco for her work in local government finance.