Jennifer Nelsen

About

Jennifer Nelsen is Executive Vice President of Partnerships & People at Arnold Ventures, where she leads the organization's partnership-building efforts and its internal people strategy across three offices, overseeing recruiting, onboarding, learning and development, performance management, and internal communications. She previously served as chief of staff to the organization's president and CEO and as assistant general counsel at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and earlier practiced litigation at Winston & Strawn and Weil, Gotshal & Manges. She began her career as a judicial law clerk for U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon and holds degrees from Washington and Lee University and New York Law School.