Jennifer “J.D.” Gladden

Title(s)

Academic Dean;

Teacher

Teaches

History

Education

MEd, Harvard University;

BA, Wesleyan College

Bio

J.D. comes to SEGL from Harvard University, where she recently earned her Master’s degree in International Education Policy.  At Harvard, she served as Co-President of Voices for Africa, an initiative that taught African history and leadership to Boston Public School students.  Prior to her graduate studies, she taught U.S. History and Modern World History at the Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut.  At Pomfret, she created and led courses on Genocide in Africa, The History of Apartheid, and Pan-African Nationalism; she also created and led trips to Johannesburg and Capetown, South Africa, to teach and tutor young children in underserved schools.  In 2008, she spent the summer as a journalist in Ghana.  Before teaching at Pomfret, she taught at the Island School semester program’s Deep Creek Middle School in the Bahamas, at the Philadelphia Zoo, and at Lola Ya Bonobo, a sanctuary for endangered apes in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.