Jennifer Mack joined Slover Linett in August, 2011, bringing four years of experience in higher education administration and outstanding analytical skills. She collaborates with the firm’s other researchers to collect, analyze, and interpret data for a wide range of research and assessment studies.

Jennifer contributes to projects for educational institutions such as Stanford University, UCLA Anderson School of Management, and the University of Chicago, as well as the firm’s dance, visual art, and informal science clients.

Before joining Slover Linett, Jennifer served as a faculty support and financial manager at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, and she studied economics and public policy at both institutions. At Northwestern, Jennifer also worked at the newly formed Center for Civic Engagement, where she gained experience planning and stewarding grant funding for programs that connect college students with Chicago-area community organizations for internships and volunteering.

Jennifer cut her teeth as a copy editor and fact checker at Encyclopedia Britannica.

Jennifer graduated magna cum laude from Smith College, where she studied mathematics and comparative literature. At Smith, she won a National Science Foundation scholarship and the college’s Pokora Prize in mathematics, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

She received a fellowship to study in the University of Chicago’s Masters of Arts Program in the Humanities, where she focused on the history of psychology and the philosophy of history.

Jennifer’s volunteer work focuses on access to education: she mentors a high school student under the auspices of Minds Matter and coaches a first-generation college student on financial planning with the Center for Economic Progress.