Leadership and Staff
Leadership
Jennifer Davis, President and CEO - (617) 378-3942, jennifer@timeandlearning.org
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. Her positions have included serving in the Clinton Administration as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education as well as Special Assistant to Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, responsible for supporting the Congressional passage and implementation of the Goals 2000: Educate American Act (the first federal law dedicated to raising educational standards for all U.S. children). Prior to serving in the federal government Jennifer was the Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the National Governors’ Association (NGA). While at NGA, she served as a liaison to the White House in coordinating the 1989 Education Summit between the President and the nation’s governors, which led to the creation of the National Education Goals.
In 1998, Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston appointed Jennifer Executive Director of his citywide after-school learning initiative, the Boston 2:00-to-6:00 After-School Initiative. In 2000, Ms. Davis became the Co-founder and President of Massachusetts 2020, an education organization dedicated to expanding learning opportunities for children across Massachusetts. Over the last seven years Massachusetts 2020 has led eight strategic initiatives impacting over 15,000 children and in 2004, 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 25% more learning and enrichment time. Since 2005, the Massachusetts legislature has invested $20 million to support this ambitious policy reform.
In 1988 and 1992, Jennifer managed Presidential campaign operations in several east coast states, overseeing press strategy, field organization, volunteer operations, constituency groups and candidate visits.
Jennifer began her career as a consultant to the youth organization Communities in Schools and developed case studies on their innovative program to support at-risk youth in Houston, TX, Atlanta, GA, Columbia, SC, and Charlotte, NC.
Jennifer Davis has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California, and a Bachelor’s Degree with a concentration in government and sociology from Connecticut College. She was named a Coro Fellow in public policy in 1984 and participated in this leadership-training program in St. Louis, Missouri.
Over the years, Jennifer has served on numerous boards and committees including several U.S. Department of Education and National Science Foundation advisory boards, Harvard’s Program in Education, Afterschool & Resiliency Advisory Board, the executive committees of Boston’s After-School for All Partnership, Boston After School & Beyond, and the boards of two schools.
Jennifer was born and raised in Haverhill, Massachusetts and currently lives with her husband and their daughter in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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.
Chris Gabrieli- Co-Chair of the National Center on Time & Learning, John Podesta- CEO of the Center for American Progress, and Congressman Miller- Chair of the House Education Committee, discuss the National Center on Time & Learning at the launch event in D.C.
Paul Reville, Co-Chair of the National Center on Time & Learning, with Leigh Hopkins, National Network Director at the Center.