Jennifer is a Project Officer at the administrative headquarters of the Global Young Academy (GYA), an academy of 200 early-career scientists and scholars from around the world. The GYA is hosted by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Jennifer holds an M.A. in European Studies from the University of Hamburg and a B.A. in International Relations from Boston University. She previously worked in teaching, research and project management at the Chair for Urban Social Studies, Institute for European Urban Studies at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.