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.

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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.