Career Highlights

Upon graduating from Commonwealth School in 1981, Jennifer attended Brown University and graduated with a B.A. in English. Subsequently, she completed extensive studies in the doctoral program for Teacher Education and Education Policy at the College of Education at Michigan State University. She then returned to Brown to work for the Education Alliance, an organization that partnered with schools and state education agencies that were working to make their instructional practices more equitable to students from all backgrounds. There, she spent ten years researching and evaluating programs that included adolescent literacy, teacher learning, and educational technology. 

Jennifer returns to Commonwealth after spending fourteen years as Head of School at School One in Providence, Rhode Island, a small, diverse, and progressive independent high school, with a mission that includes a focus on creativity, a collaborative culture, and an appreciation of difference. 

She has been a recipient of a Fulbright Hays Fellowship to live and study in China, as well as a Klingenstein Fellowship for independent school heads at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has recently served as a grant reviewer for the Women's Fund of Rhode Island.