Jennifer Ann Ramos
Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL)
Jennifer Ramos is the Senior Director of Research Strategy and Consulting at the Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University. In this role, she leads CPRL’s partnership with a large urban school district, guiding multi-stakeholder engagement, organizational learning, and strategic advising to strengthen systemwide programming, management practices, and team effectiveness. Recently, her work has been grounded in an ecosystem approach to educational transformation, with a focus on literacy in NYC and how to build coherence across school-day and out-of-school time literacy experiences.
Prior to joining CPRL, Jennifer served as Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Relay, where she led the New York campus and sat on the National Executive Team supporting 19 campuses across the country. In this role, she helped expand the program’s impact while centering equity, culturally responsive pedagogy, universal design for learning, and social-emotional development.
Jennifer’s career spans key roles in talent development and system improvement, including serving as Director of Talent Development at Achievement First and as Implementation Lead for a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded initiative to build teacher career pathways at Green Dot Public Schools.
She began her career as a high school science teacher in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, and continues to anchor her leadership in the experiences of educators and students. Jennifer holds a B.A. in Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in School Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University.
