Jaclyn Kelly. All Right Reserved.

J.U.M.P. centers evaluation practice around the goals of Understand, Measure, and Perform. It is based in NYC and owned by Jaclyn Kelly.

Jaclyn is passionate about conducting research that promotes strong outcomes for mission-driven organizations and their clients, and has over two decades of experience working to achieve that. She specializes in studies designed to measure and improve program effectiveness, particularly in educational and workforce-development settings.

Jaclyn has led research and evaluation at numerous nonprofits and is currently the Director of the NYC Labor Market Information Service (LMIS), a research institute located within the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is trained in the Co-Active® model of leadership coaching and works closely with educational institutions, workforce nonprofits, and researchers to to support them in accelerating analysis-driven decision-making and practices.

Jaclyn believes we should all be critical consumers of data and are all capable of understanding and analyzing (even enjoying!) it, and those beliefs inform her work as an adjunct faculty member at City College and Long Island University, Brooklyn, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in research methods, program evaluation, and statistical analysis. She has been a Presidential Research Fellow and Quantitative Reasoning Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Global Social Innovation Fellow at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. She also holds a BS in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, an Ed.M. in Measurement and Evaluation from Columbia University, and is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in Political Science.