She brings a combination of business, government and academic experience to her teaching and research. She is a strong advocate of the Liberal Arts having applied her undergraduate philosophy degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to jobs ranging from campaign manager to consumer advocate to senior administrator for the Division of Cardiology at New York Hospital-Weil Cornell Medical Center. Jennifer found the philosophy in math earning an MBA in Finance and Statistics from the New York University Stern School of Business and her Ph.D. in Finance and Economics from the Rutgers Business School. Her research is in applied microeconomics in the fields of health care, risk management and econometrics.