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JENNIFER HENRY

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JENNIFER HENRY

TITLE 

Founder and CEO

ORGANIZATION

Hidden Skills

BIOGRAPHY

Jennifer K. Henry is the founder and CEO of Hidden Skills, a tool that surfaces and names the durable skills young people build through internships, jobs, work-based learning, athletics, and the arts. Her career spans the full range of education, from start-ups to publicly traded companies and from K-12 to higher education to workforce development. She was senior vice president of Career Services at Trilogy Education Services, where she built and scaled the coaching operation that delivered feedback on tens of thousands of student work products each year, and held senior leadership roles at Pahara Institute and New Leaders. Earlier she co-founded and led the Academy for Urban School Leadership in Chicago, one of the country's first urban teacher residency programs, and began her career as a high school history teacher. Jennifer holds a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. She serves on the board of the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship in Education, and lives in Oakland.

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