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Dr. Jennifer Bryan: Leading with Empathy and Understanding

October 12, 2021 • gcLi • Season 1 • Episode 116

Dr. Jennifer Bryan, Ph.D. founded Team Finch Consultants and began offering specialized gender and sexuality consultation to PreK-12 schools in 2001.* As these issues have become increasingly relevant in social, political, religious and educational contexts, Jennifer continues to expand and refine her programs for schools and other organizations. Her conceptual and pedagogical models related to gender and sexuality continue to evolve, as she tries to keep pace with the profound and rapid change in this field.

She recently founded Re-Set School, a new consulting entity envisioned by a diverse team of experienced educators in the Spring of 2020. Re-Set’s short-term goal is to help school leaders make their communities stronger, more equitable, and more adaptive during the Covid-19 pandemic. Jennifer sees the massive disruption caused by pandemic-driven education as a challenge, but also as an opportunity. The long-term goal for Re-Set is to help schools use the lessons of the pandemic to build back stronger and more equitably, to ensure that school mission and values are lived out on a daily basis.

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