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Jennifer Schulte

As the Program Officer for Youth and Livelihoods, Jennifer manages the Women's Refugee Commission's Youth and Livelihoods initiative, which conducts research to develop guidelines and technical resources for donors, practitioners and policy makers on the livelihoods needs, capacities and aspirations of displaced youth. The program analyzes critical gender issues for displaced youth and promotes innovative programs and policies to improve the economic resilience of conflict-affected young people as they transition to adulthood.

Prior to joining the Women's Refugee Commission, Jennifer was a Gender and Development Specialist on the Economic Development team of the International Center for Research on Women. In this role, she provided technical and partnership management for strategic gender research, program planning and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of international development and humanitarian action initiatives. Her work addressed innovation for gender equity through economic strengthening, agriculture, working with adolescent girls, engaging men and boys, social norm change and technology. In this position, she advised foundations, international and national organizations, agricultural research centers and private sector partners on how to plan and evaluate research and programs that are responsive to the lived realities and capacities of women, men, girls and boys in diverse contexts. She provided technical support and capacity development in socioeconomic gender analysis and M&E to research and programs in Brazil, China, El Salvador, India, Kenya, Mali, Paraguay, Peru, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia. She designed and conducted field research and assessments in Burkina Faso, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal and Tanzania. She has worked previously with refugees from Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. Jennifer has also served as an emergency responder with the American Red Cross.

Jennifer earned her MSc in Gender Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science, in addition to a master’s degree from King’s College London and a bachelor's degree from Columbia University.