Jessica Snyder, M.S., teaches Psychology and Early Childhood Development courses. She has been teaching at Montcalm Community College since fall 1999.

She earned a master’s degree in Educational Psychology and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

For the past 25 years, Jessica has found her job to be amazingly fulfilling and rewarding. She enjoys her interactions with students who are having their world views and life options opened up for them by their choice to attend MCC. She is proud to be contributing to the life journeys of so many students as they make positive changes that will impact their lives and the lives of others. She brings open mindedness, the ability to explain complicated topics, and a passion to make Psychology genuinely useful for people to her job.

Jessica and her wife have been together for 24 years and got married in the summer of 2017. They have three adult children, and they now fill the house with a collection of cats and Yorkie dogs.

Her personal motto is we are responsible for leaving our corner of the world as good or better than we found it. This is something she learned from her mother.

In her free time, Jessica enjoys watching movies and travelling. Her favorite trip was a three-week journey in 2021 when she visited multiple national parks, including Bandelier National Monument, Yellowstone National Park, and Badlands National Park. One destination on her bucket list is to go on a safari in Africa.

Here are some other fun facts about Jessica:  

• She spent 20 years training, raising, and showing Arabian horses, starting in her childhood.  
• She was a competitive swimmer as a child.  
• She is an avid consumer of fantasy and science fiction stories.    
• She has watched a ridiculous number of horror films.