Jennifer C. Jones, MSW, PhD, LCSW

Jennifer C. Jones, MSW, PhD, LCSW, is a 54 y.o., multiracial Black, queer, fairly able-bodied, cisgender woman with U.S. citizenship. In 2021, she co-founded Rising Caps Collective with Aisha Mohammed, LMFT, supporting expansive healing to address traumatic legacies of colonization, slavery and capitalism. Jennifer works with Lykos Technologies (formerly MAPS Public Benefit Corporation) as a JEDI consultant and a MDMA-Assisted Therapy educator. Since 1998, Jennifer has practiced trauma psychotherapy using Gestalt Therapy principles, an economic human rights framework and harm reduction lens with individuals identifying as: lgbqa; transgender or gender non-binary; BIPOC; sex workers; substance users; experiencing class oppression; neurodiverse and/or HIV positive. Prior to 2021, she served as the Chief DEI Officer of Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers and as a faculty member and the Executive Director of the Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia (GTIP). Jennifer earned her undergraduate degree in comparative literature from Northwestern University College of Arts and Sciences, her MSW in clinical social work from Smith College School for Social work and her social work doctorate from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. As a parent who believes a just world is possible, Jennifer is committed to the unity of the global poor and dispossessed organizing across color lines to fight for everyone’s economic human rights.

In addition, Jennifer is the author of the following chapter based on the qualitative research she conducted for the completion of her doctorate degree:

• Jones, J.C. (2022). Neoliberal Sexual Entrepreneurial Subjects: Student Sex Workers Responding to Twenty-first-Century Economic Demands in the US. In: Jones, D., Sanders, T. (eds) Student Sex Work. Palgrave Advances in Sex Work Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07777-7_6