Jennifer Bryan

Description

Jennifer Bryan, PhD, is a psychologist and consultant who specializes in helping schools and organizations create inclusive communities by understanding and addressing gender and sexuality diversity. As founder and principal of Team Finch Consultants, she works primarily with preK-12 schools to help them explore gender and sexuality as these issues relate to school life. She uses psychological and pedagogical frameworks, skilled group facilitation, and a lively sense of humor to help administrators, teachers, staff, parents, trustees and students explore the complex terrain of gender and sexuality identity development.

Dr. Bryan began her career as an English teacher and counselor at The Hotchkiss School and then worked as a psychologist in a variety of clinical settings. In addition to her private psychotherapy practice, she taught at the Smith College School for Social Work and Teachers College, Columbia University. Over the years she has provided clinical and organizational consultation to a variety of schools and social service agencies.

Dr. Bryan is a frequent speaker on gender and sexuality diversity at education conferences nationwide and is the author of From the Dress-Up Corner to the Senior Prom: Navigating Gender and Sexuality Diversity in PreK-12 Schools a book for educators and parents. Her children’s book, The Different Dragon, was recently translated into Spanish by a middle school student!

She earned her masters and doctorate in counseling psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, a BA in creative writing from Princeton University and studied for a year at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.