Jennifer Shire
(she/her/hers)
Part-Time Co-op Coordinator
Education
- MBA in Finance, Columbia University
- BA in English Literature, Mount Holyoke College
Biography
Jennifer Shire is a director of strategic partnerships at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She earned her bachelor’s in English literature from Mount Holyoke College and her MBA in finance from Columbia University. In her role, Shire and her team identify and cultivate business relationships that lead to experiential learning opportunities for students, research partnerships, and philanthropic support for Khoury College. She collaborates across the university network of campuses and works actively with student services, the co-operative education team, advancement, the research institutes, and the university’s office of employer engagement and career design.
Shire enjoys finding and connecting new partners to solutions that meet their needs, as well as the way in which Khoury students and faculty deliver relevant solutions in the world of business, technology, and society.
Prior to joining Northeastern, Shire worked in HR recruitment for Fidelity Investments, Cisco, MathWorks, and Charles River Development (State Street).
Shire grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania.