JK Flake received a BS in Psychology from Northern Kentucky University in 2010, an MA in Quantitative Psychology from James Madison University in 2012, and a PhD in Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment from the University of Connecticut in 2015. From 2015 to 2018 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in quantitative psychology at York University and educational psychology at the University of Virginia. In 2018 she started her lab in the Quantitative Psychology area of the Department of Psychology at McGill University, earning tenure in 2024. Starting in the Fall of 2024, she relocated her lab to the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. JK Flake is also a founding member of the Psychological Science Accelerator and an advocate for open science in general. Her research interests include the transparent development and application of latent variable models for use in educational and social psychological research and the improvement of measurement practices in psychology more broadly. 

Lab Website:  https://www.jessicakayflake.com/lab 
Profile Page: https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/jessica-flake/