Jennie Niles

Ms. Niles is the Former, Deputy Mayor For Education in District of Columbia. She founded and led the acclaimed E.L. Haynes Public Charter School before serving as D.C.’s Deputy Mayor for Education in the Bowser Administration. Niles’s project is STEM City—a year-long investigation to identify, design, and scale the best solutions to the jobs/skills mismatch faced by students in the local economy. D.C. has robust growth and unfulfilled jobs in the technology and engineering sectors. Yet most schools have not kept pace in teaching the required skills in science, technology, and engineering, and math, or in designing meaningful workplace learning for students. Niles will research this issue, learn what efforts are already working — both in the region and around the country — and then develop a citywide response.