Jennifer E. Hobbs

Jennifer E. Hobbs joined The New School in April 2020 as Senior Vice President for Administration and Chief of Staff. In this role, she works in collaboration with institutional leaders, colleagues across the university, and constituents to plan, coordinate, and advance the university’s vision and academic mission. She has been in higher education administration for more than ten years, working to remove impediments to institutional advancement and to develop efficient, data-driven, humanistic approaches to institutional decision making, processes, and policies. Before coming to The New School, she served as Chief of Staff and Vice Provost in the Office of the Provost at Emory University. She obtained her BS in Biology from Loyola University Chicago and her PhD from Northwestern University through the Driskill Graduate Program in the Life Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine.