Dr. Jennie Weiner is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Connecticut. Her scholarship focuses on issues of educational leadership and organizational change, including the impact of gender and racial discrimination in educational leadership. She has presented at national and international conferences with her work appearing in over 40 peer-reviewed journals and is the author, with Dr. Isobel Stevenson, of the Strategy Playbook for Educational Leaders. She has also appeared as an expert on issues of women, leadership, and care work for a variety of events and media outlets such as Good Morning America and NPR as well as on a variety of podcasts. She holds an Ed.D. and Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and currently lives with her partner Jeremiah, their 10-year-old twin boys Rufus and Manny, and their dog Junior.

The interview was recorded July 2021