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Jennifer is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Design and Management and Assistant Dean of Curriculum + Learning for Parsons School of Design. From 2016-2021 she served on the faculty in the MFA Products of Design, MA Design Research Writing and Criticism, and BFA Graphic Design and Advertising programs, where she taught courses in design history for writers, design for social value, design and politics, graphic design history, and thesis research and writing. At Parsons, she has taught Design + Management Seminar 1, Design and Everyday Experience; Design Development; History of Graphic Design; and Global Issues in 21st Century Art and Design. Her research considers the construction of pedagogies that critique the intersections of design and power, primarily through the intersectional lenses of race, gender, ability, and socio-economic status. 

In addition to teaching, Jennifer has worked for a number of design and design-adjacent institutions including Pentagram, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning and the AIGA. As museum educator at the American Federation of Arts (AFA) in the 1990s, Jennifer led Art Access II, an initiative designed to increase museum attendance among under-served communities through education and community outreach. She earned her M.Ed. in Communication and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University where her thesis, “Space, Time, and Objects” proposed pedagogies of equity and access in the art history curriculum.

Degrees Held

M.Ed, Communication and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

B.A., Arts Administration and Education, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, New York University

Recent Publications

Crafted Kinship: Inside the Creative Practices of Contemporary Black Caribbean Makers (2024), Editor

The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression, Reflection (2022), Editor

Portfolio

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