Jennifer Weinreb Owen
Lecturer, Senior in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Sanford School of Public Policy
Schools
- Sanford School of Public Policy
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Biography
Sanford School of Public Policy
Jenni Owen is on leave beginning January 2017, serving as policy director for Governor Roy Cooper.
At Duke, Owen is Director of Policy Engagement and on the faculty of the Sanford School of Public Policy, where she focuses on enhancing interaction among research, policy, and practice.
She works with government, non-profit, and university stakeholders to enhance the use of research to inform and positively affect policy and practice, particularly on issues concerning disadvantaged and vulnerable children and families. In addition to teaching and advising undergraduates and graduate students, she directs the North Carolina Family Impact Seminar, a legislative education initiative, and co-directs the Duke University School Research Partnership. From 2008-2014, she was the director of the University-Based Child and Family Policy Consortium. Owen is the principal investigator for an Oak Foundation-funded effort focused on non-profit capacity building and a John Rex Endowment project on children’s positive mental health. From 2003-2008, she was the PI for the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation’s Professional Development Initiative. She has served as a consultant to the University of North Carolina system, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and the North Carolina Network of Grantmakers. In 2007 she was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship to South Africa and in 2010 launched DukeEngage Durban (South Africa), an annual immersive service program for undergraduates.
Before coming to Duke, Owen was a senior policy advisor to Governor James B. Hunt Jr. and the planning director for the Hunt Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy. She has served on public and non-profit boards and in other civic engagement roles. She is a commissioner on the North Carolina Indigent Defense Services Commission, a member of the policy council of the Association of Public Policy and Management and was a member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine’s Task Force on Early Childhood Obesity Prevention.
Areas of Expertise
- Crime and Crime Prevention
- Criminal Justice
- Educational Policy
- Poverty
Education
M.A., Harvard University (1996)
A.B., Harvard University (1989)
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