Jennifer has a strong track record of working closely with faculty throughout her career and will build on faculty and staff engagement as well. These organizations were created to serve undergraduates and over time have informally expanded to serve wider segments of our population. While undergraduates will continue to be a focus, we are confident that intentionally and thoughtfully expanding access to all students will benefit a growing number of our community members.
Jennifer comes to us most recently from Barnard College, where she served as vice president for inclusion and engaged learning and chief diversity officer. In that role, Jennifer developed a strategy that anchored the institution's diversity and inclusion work in the learning benefits it brings to the entire community—in the classroom, through co-curricular activities, and in relationships and programming outside campus. She also led important campus initiatives such as a faculty task force on free expression.
Jennifer previously served as the inaugural director of the Center for Engaged Pedagogy at Barnard, and before that, as director of research and evaluation at the Center for Social Justice at Georgetown University. She served as assistant professor of practice in education at Barnard and as an adjunct professor in the Program on Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown. She earned her PhD in the School of Cinematic Arts, Division of Critical Studies, at the University of Southern California.