Leadership
Jennifer Davis, President and CEO
For the last twenty years, Jennifer Davis has held numerous positions at the federal, state and local levels focused on improving educational opportunities for children across the U.S. Jennifer Davis’s previous positions have included U.S. Department of Education Deputy Assistant Secretary; Special Assistant to U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley; Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the National Governors’ Association; and the Executive Director of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s after-school learning initiative.
In 2000, Jennifer became the Co-founder and President of Massachusetts 2020, an education organization dedicated to expanding learning opportunities for children across Massachusetts. Over the last eight years, Massachusetts 2020 has lead eight strategic initiatives impacting over 25,000 children. In 2004, in partnership with the Governor’s office, legislature and state Department of Education, the organization launched the Expanded Learning Time Initiative (ELT) – a research, policy, and technical assistance effort to redesign public schools to extend their day and year to include at least 300 additional hours of learning and enrichment time. On October 2, 2007, Jennifer became the President & CEO of the National Center on Time & Learning, a new organization to advance the issue of time and learning nationally.
Jennifer Davis, President & CEO of the National Center on Time & Learning, formally launches the new center at an event in D.C. on October 2, 2007.