Jennifer S. Dean is the Founder and Executive Director of All Girls Considered (AGC), a national nonprofit organization that is on a mission to place girl-identifying and non-binary youth at the center of every story. AGC believes that when girls decide how their stories are told, it creates profound shifts in narrative ownership and power structures, giving them greater agency in determining their future - now.

Jennifer received a B.A. in Journalism and minor in Spanish from the University of Texas at Arlington (2005) and an M.A. in Teaching (2014) from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Prior to her current role, Jennifer was the National Research Assistant at 826 National in San Francisco in addition to working in museum administration at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. For six years Jennifer served her community as a middle school educator in a Title I classroom just outside of Austin, Texas, where AGC was born. As a 2017-8 recipient of the Germanacos Fellowship for Sharing History, Jennifer pushed the boundaries of oral history storytelling to develop student voice while fostering familial and community connections.

Jennifer has published on the relationship between education policy and perceptions of teachers in the media. She also researches and writes about the development of student voice through through the lens of social justice driven, student-led action.