Program Involvement
Jessica Creighton is a Program Director at the Ash Center, where she is primarily responsible for the Program on Democracy and the Informed Public. Jessica has been at HKS since 2013, during which time she has worked on a variety of Ash Center projects and programs, including Transparency for Development, Reimagining Democracy, and the Bangladesh Public Administration Project. She was also Research Program Director for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative from 2020-2022. In additional to project management, her specialties include designing training programs, mixed-methods research, and designing and executing impact evaluations. She’s contributed to social science research across a variety of topic areas, including education, social accountability, public health, and energy efficiency.
Jessica holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Tulane University and a Master of Education in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.