Jennifer Kiefer Fenton

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Thank you for visiting my website to learn more about my research, teaching, and professional practice! I am a hybrid academic-administrator with over 10 years of experience working in higher education, developing and teaching courses, and designing and managing student services programming. My research and teaching focuses on designing more sustainable and healthy organizational cultures. I enact this in my administrative practice by developing stakeholder responsive programming and building the organizational infrastructure to support project-centered, innovative learning spaces through building relationships across departments, disciplines, colleges, programs, and with community leaders. This all brings clarity to organizational mission and empowers leadership in others.

I believe that learning best happens through cooperative action. My training programs and courses emphasize working in project management teams in partnership with community stakeholders. Course participants leave these learning spaces with skills in responsible problem-identification, cooperative problem-solving, evidence-based and collaborative project design, and thoughtful program evaluation.

I have presented on or published articles on topics of organizational leadership, professional ethics, corporate social responsibility, diversity and inclusion, adult learning pedagogy, and Jane Addams's legacy for social change nonprofit professional practice.

Passionate about building stuff with others that empowers humanity.