Jenny Fernandez
Senior Director, Student and Culture Engagement
As Senior Director, Student and Culture Engagement Bridging Program Excellence, Employee Experience, and Entrepreneurial Impact Culture, Jenny maintains a multi-focus lens that leverages her unique strengths. She supports program engagement by refining student-facing policies and emergency response systems. She oversees the development of student-facing policies and procedures that ensure safety and clarity not only in Boston but also as we expand to our scaling sites in Lawrence, Lowell, and Brockton. In collaboration with the Talent and Org Dev Teams, Jenny partners to support, assess, evaluate, and evolve all culture engagement and employee experience initiatives.
Jenny’s deep expertise in youth development is grounded in her previous work as a Student Engagement Manager for Boston Public Schools and as the Youth Program Director for Teens Lead at Work. Beyond her non-profit leadership, Jenny is a dedicated entrepreneur and community advocate; she co-owns Fly Together Fitness, with locations in Somerville and Watertown, and serves on the Advancing Equity in Health Research Community Advisory Board through Boston University and Boston Medical Center. Jenny holds a Master of Public Health from Emory University and a B.S. in Environmental Science.