Jennifer A. Senick is Senior Executive Director of the Center for Urban Policy Research and an Assistant Dean for Research, Senior Policy Fellow, and a member of the PhD Faculty at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, Rutgers University.

She was educated at Bowdoin, UCLA and Rutgers in political science and regional planning and public policy and previously worked at RAND and in the private sector. Her areas of expertise include energy transition planning, climate mitigation and adaptation, behavior change and community-based participatory research, with a focus on disabled and economically disadvantaged populations.  Dr. Senick leads the Center’s program evaluation and policy development work for the NJ Board of Public Utilities and has been funded by the US Dept of Energy, US EPA, HUD and the NSF along with numerous NJ state agencies and nonprofit organizations.  Her international engagements have been funded by Horizon Europe and UN Habitat, and she is a Salzburg Global Fellow.   She regularly publishes peer-reviewed publications on these topics and policy white papers and research reports.  Dr. Senick is a member of the Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute, NJ Climate Change Resource Center and Rutgers CCICADA (Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis), serves on the Board of Directors (Treasurer) of the International Association of People Environment Studies (IAPS), as a Trend Scout for the American Planning Association and is a Trustee of Children’s Specialized Hospital, RWJBH.