Jennifer Klein is the inaugural Ann F. Kaplan Women’s Initiative Professor in the Institute for Global Politics at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York City. Professor Klein will also co-direct the Ann F. Kaplan Women’s Initiative and serve as a professor of practice beginning this summer. Most recently, she was assistant to the president and director of the White House Gender Policy Council under President Joe Biden. She has advised multiple U.S. Presidents on issues relating to health and reproductive rights, gender-based violence, women’s economic security, and human rights.
Professor Klein is a graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she majored in history. She earned her juris doctorate from Columbia Law School.
Julie Holland Mortimer is the inaugural James Langenfeld Professor of Industrial Organization at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Mortimer joined the university’s faculty in 2025. She also serves as a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. As a scholar, Dr. Mortimer focuses her work on the impact of new forms of contracting between content producers and internet retailers. She has also studied demand tension in retail settings and new methods of distributing and monetizing content such as movies, music, and images.
A magna cum laude graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, Dr. Mortimer received her master’s degree and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dina Deitsch was named the Ruth Gordon Shapiro ’37 Director of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Deitsch comes to her new role from Tufts University in Massachusetts, where she serves as director and chief curator of the university’s Art Galleries. Before her current role, she was the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Interim Director for the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. She has taught at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, as well as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Deitsch holds a bachelor’s degree from the Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University in New York and a master’s degree in the history of art from Williams College in Massachusetts.