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Hello! I'm Jenny. I'm a learning designer, career coach, and humanist. I create educational programs that can empower people to make the world a better place, achieve ambitious goals, and find more fulfillment in their work. I have enjoyed working students with a wide diversity of professional arenas and cultural backgrounds to explore their leadership and career goals.

 

I currently have the privilege to support a variety of organizations to design specialized learning experiences that can help professionals and executives work through some of the biggest challenges we face in the world today. As Associate Director of Program Design for Fletcher Executive Education (Fletcher School, Tufts University),  I design specialized trainings for government ministries, international aid organizations, multilateral institutes, and nonprofits, collaborating with faculty to create specialized programs, ranging from climate finance to negotiation and conflict management.

Previously at the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Modern Languages, I built and oversaw the school's first-ever Graduate Program,  collaborating with faculty and business leaders across Atlanta to create new degrees that would help humanities students pursue careers in media, business, and nonprofit work. In this role, I served as a career coach and taught courses in German Studies, career development, community management, and leadership. I have published and offered trainings on the innovation of graduate study, online learning, career education, curriculum design, and interdisciplinary collaboration, most recently Graduate Education for a Thriving Humanities Ecosystem, published by the Modern Language Association. 

 

My career started in in the humanities, and my experience studying literature and philosophy continues to inform my work. I hold a Ph.D. in German Studies from Stanford University, where my research focused on the history of happiness in literature, philosophy, psychology, and education. It was an incredible opportunity to spend time immersed in some of the biggest questions of the human experience (What is happiness? What makes life meaningful?), and I try, whenever possible, to bring some of that meaning to my work today. 

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NEW BOOK

I'm thrilled that Graduate Education for a Thriving Humanities Ecosystem, which I co-edited with my colleague, former classmate, and dear friend Stacy Hartman, is now available!  

Published by the MLA Press, this collection of essays features examples of innovations in graduate education in the humanities from across the United States. Our goal was to develop a framework for graduate education that is rooted in abundance, collaboration, community engagement, and personal well-being. We envision graduate education in the humanities as a training ground for careers of meaning, purpose, and joy

 

I would like to thank the many contributors who submitted essays for this volume, as well as the Modern Language Association for believing in this project.

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IN THE MEDIA

Below are links to news stories that cover some of my recent or past projects.

Tufts News: "High-Powered Partnership for Transformation" On an executive leadership training program for the Asian Development Bank 

Georgia Tech News: "Innovative Career Course Features Cross-Cultural Studies, Importance of Humanities" On "Career Design for Global Citizenship," a new course at Georgia Tech, offered in 2019 and 2020.​

New York Times: "Do You Speak My Language?"  On foreign language learning in the United States, featuring the new master's programs we created at Georgia Tech

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