Jennifer Fricas works at Smith College as the Dean of the Senior Class. In this role, she combines her interdisciplinary experiences in health, higher education, qualitative research, and program development and evaluation to advise students on academic matters, post-college possibilities, and extracurricular engagement. Jennifer’s areas of expertise include critical public and global health, education and development, health and human rights, and community-based well-being. She has experience in numerous qualitative and practice-oriented scholarship methods including photovoice, community-based participatory research, program development and evaluation, and ethnographic methods. She has developed and conducted numerous photovoice trainings for faculty and graduate students, both at SU and in collaboration with partners in Ecuador and South Korea. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her partner and their chiweenie, Luna.
