As the Assistant Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies, Jenna manages the daily operations of the Center, which includes programming, finances, human resources, building operations, and events. Serving as the Director's deputy, she acts as the primary point of contact for Center stakeholders. Before joining Georgetown University, Jenna was a Fulbright ETA fellow in Bahrain, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in The Republic of Georgia, and worked as a program assistant at the Kuwait-America Foundation as well as an intern at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED). Jenna is currently pursuing an M.A. in Arab Studies at Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, with a research interest in both gender and race in the Arab World.