Director of Community-based Learning (CBL), Adjunct Lecturer of Child Studies Program
Jennifer Merritt, M.B.A., Ph.D., serves as the Director of Community-based Learning in the Ignatian Center. She is primarily responsible for overseeing the execution of the Arrupe Engagement Program as well as Thriving Neighbors, Santa Clara University Community Partnerships.
She earned her B.A. from Vanderbilt University, her M.B.A. from Northwestern University's J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and her Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from U.Va., has worked in industry management with Johnson & Johnson and served on the faculty at John Carroll University in the Department of Education and Allied Studies, where she founded the campus-based middle school and high school positive youth development program known as the Carroll-Cleveland Philosophers’ Program.
Most recently, Jen served as the Faculty Director of Mentoring and Diversity at the University of Virginia Women’s Center, where she taught “Women Peace and Justice,” “Teaching Philosophy in High Schools,” and “Facilitating Mentoring Relationships” while directing international education and research initiatives with the Women's Center’s global partners in India and Africa and developing outreach programming for adolescent girls and women locally and globally.
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About Jennifer C. Merritt
Jennifer Merritt, M.B.A., Ph.D., serves as the Director of Community-based Learning in the Ignatian Center. She is primarily responsible for overseeing the execution of the Arrupe Engagement Program as well as Thriving Neighbors, Santa Clara University Community Partnerships.
She earned her B.A. from Vanderbilt University, her M.B.A. from Northwestern University's J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and her Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from U.Va., has worked in industry management with Johnson & Johnson and served on the faculty at John Carroll University in the Department of Education and Allied Studies, where she founded the campus-based middle school and high school positive youth development program known as the Carroll-Cleveland Philosophers’ Program.
Most recently, Jen served as the Faculty Director of Mentoring and Diversity at the University of Virginia Women’s Center, where she taught “Women Peace and Justice,” “Teaching Philosophy in High Schools,” and “Facilitating Mentoring Relationships” while directing international education and research initiatives with the Women's Center’s global partners in India and Africa and developing outreach programming for adolescent girls and women locally and globally.
| 2014 - Present | Adjunct Lecturer, Santa Clara University ‐ Child Studies Program | |
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| 2014 - Present | Director of Community-based Learning (CBL), Santa Clara University ‐ Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education | |
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Disciplines
| 2021 | MA in Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries, Santa Clara University | |
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| 1999 | Ph.D. in Sociology of Education, University of Virginia ‐ The Curry School of Education | |
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| 1993 | Masters in Managment, Northwestern University ‐ J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management | |
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| 1986 | B.A. in Political Science, Vanderbilt University | |
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