Jessyca Whittekiend

Jessyca Whittekiend is a Contract Specialist for NCIS in Quantico, VA. She brings a distinctive career path to federal acquisitions, having served as a Cryptologic Linguist in the U.S. Army, where she translated and interpreted Modern Standard Arabic.

Before her military and federal career, she built a strong foundation in behavioral and legal analysis in Brazil, including work at a Brazilian university clinic, a Family and Adoption Court investigating cases involving at-risk minors, and a State Criminal Court analyzing legal case files and conducting psychological interviews of defendants. She also authored research on psychiatric reform and criminal justice.

She holds a Master's degree in Paralegal Studies from George Washington University, a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (Brazil), and an Associate of Arts in Arabic Studies from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (Monterey, CA). She is fluent in Portuguese and English, with intermediate Arabic proficiency, and brings her international expertise in the Middle East and South America to her analytical and legal work.