Jennifer Walters
I
graduated Houghton College in 2002 with a BA in Philosophy and a
second major in Communications. Subsequent to graduating from
Houghton, I pursued a career in advocacy and policy work, holding
positions in program management and quality improvement at two
Philadelphia-based nonprofits.
In 2005, I began working on a Master’s degree at the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated in 2007. Since having completed my Masters, I was the first staff to be hired on to work for the M. Night Shyamalan Foundation, a developing family foundation that works to alleviate poverty both in Philadelphia and internationally.
Recently, I spent two weeks working out a skills-training and microfinance program for women in the Kasturba Nagar Slum community in Nagpur, India, which will also function as our foundation’s commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative for 2008. Domestically, we have just begun working closely with the newly elected mayor on education reform in Philadelphia. Here at the foundation, I am able to utilize the analytical skills I developed at Houghton, and honed at Fels, to direct the philanthropic efforts of my Board and to help produce sustainable change.
