PARTICIPANTS

Jennifer Keller Jackson | Senior Program Officer, National Collegiate Inventor’s and Innovator’s Alliance. 
Jennifer Keller Jackson oversees NCIIA’s grants programs, totaling about $2M annually. Her experience includes program development and management, technical proposal writing and business development. Jennifer spent 20 years in Washington, D.C.; she wrote a concept paper to start a nonprofit and worked to transform another organization into a for-profit company, both of which exist today. She grew up in Asia, Africa, and South America and is deeply interested in alternatives to the traditional aid model of development. She has a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and studied at the Université de Montpellier, France.