Jillian Jacques is a University Innovation Fellow Candidate and an undergraduate student studyingComputer Science at the University of New Haven. 
Jillian is originally from Southern Pennsylvania, where she lived until 2015 when her family moved to New Hampshire. One week after that move, she started her college career off with a bang by studying abroad in Prato, Italy for her first semester. After the four most exhilarating months of her life, she returned to main campus in Connecticut to continue her college career.
At UNH, Jillian is involved with the Robotics club. In addition, he has worked for the University on grant related work through the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN). This has lead her to work closely with the freshmen Engineering Living Learning Community (LLC). She is also a member of the first year of a sophomore Innovation and Entrepreneurship LLC which was created by a previous University Innovation Fellow. Each semester Jillian also takes part in multiple start up competitions.