Jennifer Jennings studies racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in educational and health outcomes. A Princeton alumna who majored in the Woodrow Wilson School and received a certificate in Teacher Prep, she returned to Princeton in 2017 as faculty in the Department of Sociology and the Woodrow Wilson School. She had previously served on the faculty at New York University, where she was also an academic adviser. Jennings received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University.