Jaques is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies Graduate Program at Queen's University. Her CGS Doctoral Scholarship-funded research focuses on settler-colonial tourism, cultural diplomacy, and national identity in the North American and local contexts. Professionally, she has undertaken research contracts with the Swamp Ward & Inner Harbour History Project (SWIHHP), the City of Kingston, and the "In Our Own Words: The Links Between Kingston's Heritage and its Penitentiaries," a community oral history project, for which she won a Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Trust award for Excellence in Conservation in 2018.