Jeneen Graham

Dr. Jeneen Graham has been the Principal of the Upper School since 2018, and before that served six years as St. Margaret’s academic dean.

In addition to her work at St. Margaret’s, Dr. Graham has collaborated with edX, a provider of high quality online learning opportunities governed by MIT and Harvard, to develop the first ever high school MOOCs. She is also an active member of the CAIS Assessment Task force.

Dr. Graham began her career in independent schools in South Florida as the Assistant Director of Admission at St. Andrew’s School. After relocating to Southern California, she began her doctoral studies in the UCI/UCLA Ed.D. program and graduated in the summer of 2011. She joined the staff of the then-Department of Education at UC Irvine first as the project manager for ST Math and then became the Assistant Director of the Center for Research on Cognition and Learning. She was also an independent consultant supporting a longitudinal research project in Geriatrics at the UCI School of Medicine.

Dr. Graham holds a B.A. in Anthropology and a minor in Spanish from Dartmouth College. Her Ed.D in Educational Leadership is from a joint program between UCI and UCLA.