Jennifer Shinall
Jennifer Shinall
Board Member
Board Member, Jennifer Shinall, is Associate Dean at Vanderbilt Law School. Professor Shinall brings a wealth of experience in data capturing and research, focusing on discrimination. Her research, which has been published in peer-reviewed economic journals and law journals, examines how factors such as health status more generally affect labor market outcomes. Her work further considers how these effects may differ and how the legal system can address any observed disparities. Through experience and partnerships with professional peers, she is helping to make Be About Change's data collection more robust for more systematic reporting. These efforts will play a critical role in expanding Be About Change’s long-term development and fundraising initiatives.
Professor Shinall was the first graduate of the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt University. Before returning to Vanderbilt as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Law and Economics in 2013, Shinall was a clerk for Judge John Tinder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She earned an A.B. in economics and history at Harvard University and her J.D. and Ph.D. in law and economics at Vanderbilt Law School, where she served as senior articles editor for Vanderbilt Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Shinall teaches Employment Discrimination Law and Employment Law to J.D. students and also teaches Labor Markets and Human Resources and the Ph.D. Workshop for the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics.