Jennifer Perry, PhD is a Research Scholar at the Center for Race, Inequality, and Social Equity Studies (CRISES) and a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.
A social psychologist, affective neuroscientist, and ethicist by training, she uses interdisciplinary and mixed method approaches to examine how people with societal power, status, and resources reinforce social hierarchies and the status quo. Jen’s recent work in the Department of Community Health at Tufts University tackled inequitable access to organ transplantation based on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, and strength of social support network. She has twice been voted a ‘Favorite Professor’ by Harvard seniors and received a Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for “excellence in the art of teaching” from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Jen is originally from a small town in Maine and received her B.A. in Psychology and Hispanic Literature from George Washington University, her M.S. in Psychology from New York University, and her PhD in Experimental Psychology from Tufts University.