Dr. Jackson-Weaver is an External Advisory Board member of The Leadership Alliance and she has been an academic leader in global higher education for over two decades. She is the former Senior Associate Vice President of Global Faculty Engagement and Innovation Advancement at New York University where she worked with faculty across NYU's global network which includes degree granting campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, as well as research centers in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Latin America on creating and launching new initiatives in the areas of: faculty advancement; research and innovation; mentoring and professional development; and faculty success. During her tenure, she also spearheaded trailblazing mentoring iniatiaves for faculty, staff and students across NYU's global network. She is an expert on educational policy, a historian specializing in global religion, ethics, and political affairs, and a former dean-in-residence at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Dr. Jackson-Weaver has also served as an academic dean at Princeton University as well as Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government where she was selected as Advisor of the Year.  

Prior to her leadership roles in higher education, Dr. Jackson-Weaver served under three gubernatorial administrations as the inaugural executive director of the New Jersey Amistad Commission. In this role, she facilitated and led institutes throughout the country and edited two volumes of primary source documents: Reconstruction Reconsidered: The African-American Presence in American History and the Amistad Curricular Guide to American History.  She is the Founding Director of the Amistad Summer Institute at the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University. Under her administration, the Commission was featured in CNN News, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Forbes and CBS News for its innovative approach to integrating African-American History into the social studies curriculum in New Jersey’s public schools. 

Dr. Jackson-Weaver is also the former Co-Chair of the Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Group in the American Academy of Religion and the Founding Convener of Freedom Summer 2020: Making Black Lives Matter- Race, Religion, and Voting Rights in America. Dr. Jackson-Weaver is currently Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at Princeton Theological Seminary where she is a member of the Academic Affairs Committee and a Chair of the Student Life Committee. She was also recently selected as a Board Member of the Classical Theater of Harlem. She has served in numerous editorial roles and is the former National Series Editor for the Teaching Religious Studies Series produced by Oxford University Press and the American Academy of Religion. 

Dr. Jackson-Weaver earned her bachelor’s degree at Princeton University, a master’s degree at Harvard University, and a MA, MPhil, and PhD in American History from Columbia University, where she was a Kluge Scholar Fellow, Merit Dissertation fellowship winner, and nominee for the university-wide teaching award. She completed her Postdoctoral work at Princeton Theological Seminary where she was selected to be one of two Engle Scholars, a program designed to bring promising scholars to the Seminary for an experience in the pattern of the Rhodes scholarship program at Oxford University.