Biography
Jennifer Huang graduated from Indiana University as a Wells Scholar with Highest Distinction in 2017. She earned a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Social and Cultural Analysis, both with departmental honors. As an undergraduate, she conducted multi-disciplinary research including an ethnography of Iceland's renewable energy industry and a computational text analysis of Poetry Magazine's archives. Jennifer co-authored a paper in a leading science journal PNAS and wrote stories that received IU's top undergraduate fiction award. After graduating, she has redirected her focused toward community-based political and policy work. She worked as a policy associate in the Office of South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and currently serves as the civic engagement program coordinator at the Institute of Politics at The University of Chicago.