Jaclyn Kelly

Jaclyn Kelly was appointed Director of NYC Labor Market Information Service (LMIS), an applied labor market research center at The CUNY Graduate Center, in 2019. She works closely with educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and researchers to ensure that LMIS is accelerating analysis-driven decision-making and practices. Prior to LMIS, Jaclyn directed research and evaluation at New York City-based nonprofits Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) and PENCIL. She is trained in the Co-Active® model of leadership coaching and recently completed the Harvard Kennedy School’s Public Leadership credential.

Jaclyn has been a Presidential Research Fellow (2013) and Quantitative Reasoning Fellow (2014, 2016) at The CUNY Graduate Center, and a Global Social Innovation Fellow at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy (2015). She holds an Ed.M. in Measurement and Evaluation from Columbia University, and is a doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center in Political Science.

Jaclyn believes we should all be critical consumers of data and are all capable of understanding and analyzing (even enjoying!) it, and these beliefs inform her work as an adjunct faculty member at City College of New York where she teaches courses in research methods, program evaluation, public policy, and statistical analysis. Recent courses include "Children and Public Policy" (Fall 2021) and "Contemporary Issues in Family Health" (Spring 2021)