Jennifer Keller Jackson

Bio

Jennifer Keller Jackson oversees the NCIIA’s grants programs (Course and Program, E-Team, Sustainable Vision, Sponsorship and Resource grants, totaling about $2m annually), the Olympus Innovation Awards program and other competitions. Jennifer’s background is in nonprofit management in the areas of education and technology. Her experience includes program development, customer service, fund-raising, technical proposal writing, communications, and PR. She wrote a concept paper to start a nonprofit and worked to transform another organization into a for-profit company. Jennifer and her family moved to Amherst, MA from the Washington, D.C. area in 2004. Jennifer grew up overseas in Asia, Africa, and South America and is deeply interested in alternatives to the traditional aid model of development. She has a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and studied at the Univerisite de Montpellier, France.

Joined

4/2010