Jennifer Poulos

Vice President, Programs, Strategy, and Impact

Jennifer Poulos is the Vice President of Programs, Strategy, and Impact. She oversees the School on the Move Prize and career pathways program and leads the organization’s use of data for strategy and impact purposes.

Jennifer brings over twenty years of experience working at the intersection of education programs, policy, and research in the government, non-profit, and for-profit sectors. Most recently, Jennifer was a Senior Associate in the education practice at Abt Global, managing projects and programs for federal and philanthropic funders that produced evidence about improving high school students’ transition to college and into the workforce. Prior to Abt Global, Jennifer was the Associate Director at the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy where her work highlighted evidence-based practices in Massachusetts schools that would improve educational opportunities and outcomes for the Commonwealth’s students. Jennifer also worked for JFF, a national intermediary, leading a philanthropic-funded initiative focused on improving college enrollment and completion.

Jennifer has a BA from the College of the Holy Cross and a Master's of Public Policy in Education Policy from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Policy. Jennifer lives in the Charlestown section of Boston with her husband and her two children and is a proud Boston Public Schools parent.