Zoë Jenkins

Zoë Jenkins

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Charlottesville, VA

Senior Advisor & Board Member

Bio

Zoë Jenkins is a 20-year-old practicing empathy and reimagining education for democracy. She is a senior advisor for the Kentucky Student Voice Team, where she founded and produced the Get Schooled podcast. For her work elevating the voices of Kentucky’s least-heard students, she was named a 2020 National Geographic Young Explorer.

In 2020, she founded DICCE, an organization creating curriculum and resources for Generation Z to utilize empathy to create equitable and anti-racist systems, in response to her high school’s shortcomings in creating inclusive environments. Zoë also served as the inaugural Chair of the Civics Unplugged’s Steering Committee and supported organizations including Schmidt Futures, Search for Common Ground, and Meta to empower Generation Z as civic innovators.

Zoë has facilitated workshops with Stanford University faculty and The Nobel Peace Prize, been featured in The Washington Post and NPR’s All Things Considered, and was named a 2021 Aerie Changemaker and 2022 Harvard Institute of Politics Emerging Leader. She also is an associate editor of The Allstate Foundation’s Leveraging the Potential of Youth Service Report. Zoë is a fourth year at the University of Virginia studying Youth and Social Innovation and Political and Social Thought where she studies at the intersection of democracy, community, and education and elevates the power of storytelling and dialogue through her leadership in the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, the oldest student organization at UVA.

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Notable Contributions

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Race To Learn

Reports

This study distills the results from the 10,725 Kentucky middle and high school students from 114 counties who took our Race, Ethnicity, and School Climate Student Survey.

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Coping with COVID-19

Reports

When Kentucky schools shut down due to coronavirus in the spring of 2020, we pivoted our school-level school climate work to design a relevant state-wide research study and recieved nearly 13,000 student responses from all of Kentucky's counties.

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Meet the Students Leading KSVT this Year

Updates

Each school year, a new group of high school students lead our team’s work and join the board of directors as previous student members continue to guide and advise as they enter college and careers as senior advisors.

Get Schooled Podcast, Student stories from across KY

Slipping Down the Summer Slide: Tackling Summer Learning Loss

Podcasts

Get Schooled Podcast, Student stories from across KY

It’s Not Just Chilly: Let’s Talk about School Climate

Podcasts

Get Schooled Podcast, Student stories from across KY

Power of the Clique (Afterschool)

Podcasts

Get Schooled Podcast, Student stories from across KY

“You Can’t Sit With Us” Identity Politics and Cliques in School

Podcasts

Get Schooled Podcast, Student stories from across KY

Igniting Acceptance: The Role of Teachers in School Climate

Podcasts

Get Schooled Podcast, Student stories from across KY

Police Presence in Schools

Podcasts