Jennifer Peck

Biography

Jennifer joined Bay Area Partnership for Children and Youth in 2001, focusing on designing and implementing the organization’s efforts to finance and build after school programs in the region’s poorest communities. Since taking on the role of Executive Director in 2003, Jennifer has grown the Partnership’s scope to include a more comprehensive menu of support for Bay Area organizations serving children and youth, including resources for children’s physical and mental health, sustainability planning and partnership development.

Jennifer also has built the Partnership’s role as an effective advocacy organization, working with policy makers on behalf of low-income schools and community organizations to improve the effectiveness of a variety of funding streams for youth programs. In 2006, she led policy development on Senate Bill 638, which dramatically reformed California’s after school funding to better serve the highest need communities.

Jennifer recently completed a 3 year term as President of the Board of the California School-Age Consortium, currently serves as an Executive Board Member of the California After School Network and a is a co-founder of the After School Policy Forum.

Prior to her position with the Partnership, Jennifer spent eight years as an appointee of President Bill Clinton at the U.S. Department of Education, both in Washington, D.C. and in San Francisco, working to implement a range of initiatives including student loan reform, School-to-Work, and 21st Century Community Learning Centers. Jennifer has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.

Jennifer is married to John Gioia and they are parents to Christopher, 15, and Emilia, 3.