During the early 1980s, she lived in Washington, DC, enabling ASFPM to have its first, though informal, presence there. Jacki spent time calling on and attending meetings with the various federal agencies, often in the company of Jon Kusler or Larry Larson. They worked to establish partnerships, mutual understanding, and collaborative projects and contracts. One of those early contracts was to produce instructional materials for a pilot workshop on “State Hazard Mitigation Planning” at the Emergency Management Institute, which she and Larry R. Johnston executed in 1984 on behalf of ASFPM and FEMA.

In 1992, Jacki began a long series of contributions as principal investigator on ASFPM projects, including a research paper for FEMA titled “Lessons Learned from Hurricane Hugo.” Later, she was the investigator, analyst, and author of many of ASFPM’s triennial reports, released in 1989, 1992, 1995, and 2003, which provided a nationwide accounting of the status of state and local floodplain management programs and how they improved over the years. She did the same for the ASFPM’s “Flood Programs in Review,” in 1994 and 2007, in which ASFPM was able to take a more sweeping, policy-oriented focus on what states were doing to promote sound flood risk management.

Besides research and policy expertise, Jacki applied her editorial and production abilities (including preparation of camera-ready copy, before digital printing) to perhaps hundreds of ASFPM documents, including some of the first reports and papers the ASFPM produced on its own, such as the proceedings from a 1984 symposium, “Preventing Coastal Flood Disasters,” (a project of the Coastal Issues Committee); ASFPM’s first two technical papers, in 1987; and the papers from an Arid Regions Committee workshop in 1985, which was published by the Natural Hazards Center.

Under an arrangement with the Natural Hazards Center, Jacki edited and prepared for publication the proceedings volumes from the ASFPM’s annual meetings for 16 years, from 1994 to 2010, helping cement the ASFPM’s standing as a professional and science-based organization.

In 1994, ASFPM contracted with Jacki to write and produce its newsletter, News & Views, an arrangement that continued for 18 years. She continued to contribute to other technical and policy publications and thought papers. Jacki was a major driver to ASFPM’s professional and credible growth in this arena.