Jennifer Henry, Board Treasurer

Co-founder and Chief of Strategy at NewUni, Inc.

Jennifer has a successful track-record building businesses and nonprofit organizations in K-12 and higher education. She is currently a co-founder and chief of strategy at New Uni, focused on empowering universities to meet the rapidly growing global demand for high-quality, affordable higher education. Prior to New Uni, she was the senior vice president of workforce engagement at 2U and the senior vice president of career services at Trilogy Education Services. She has also held senior roles at Pahara Institute and New Leaders, and was the co-founder and executive director of the Academy for Urban School Leadership in Chicago— one of the country’s first urban teacher residency programs. Jennifer started her career as an award-winning high school history teacher.

Jennifer holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a master of business administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Jennifer is a member of the Aspen Global Leaders Network and serves on the Board of the National Equity Project. She lives in Oakland with her husband, a charter school network leader. They have two children in college.