Jacqueline C Rivers

Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies
Founder and executive director of MathPower
Doctoral fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy

Jacqueline C. Rivers, PhD, the director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies, earned her doctorate in African-American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University. She is a doctoral fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She was the founder and executive director of MathPower, a leading community-based nonprofit in Boston for mathematics education reform in urban schools. From 2001 to 2004 she served as executive director for the National TenPoint Leadership Foundation.

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