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Jennifer is the director of the Rutgers Psychology Child Development Center. She started working in the center as a student and worked her way to the current director rank. Throughout the past decades, Jennifer has worked tirelessly to offer childcare to new students, faculty, and staff on campus. She worked with state and other funding agencies to secure support for families in need and successfully applied for multiple state grants that helped the staff and the center. During the pandemic, she worked tirelessly to support the staff and designed and implemented online education for the students. Jennifer spearheaded the center's expansion and has been a great contributor and collaborator with the School of Environmental and Biological Science. She oversees all the students and work-study students who work for credit or financial support in the center. She also assists all the faculty and grad students interested in conducting research in the child development or care field. Moreover, Jennifer is constantly looking for new opportunities to support the education of students in collaboration with the childcare center.