Jennifer Valdivia Espino, M.S.

Jennifer Valdivia Espino is the student and fellow program manager for the Simons Foundation’s Autism and Neuroscience division. She manages programs that broaden participation in science and support pathways to scientific careers, including the Fellows-to-Faculty Award and the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience. These programs provide trainees with funding, professional development and mentorship in autism research, neuroscience and related fields.

Previously, Valdivia Espino served as assistant director for the Graduate Program in Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in population health sciences from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also a trained facilitator of the Entering Mentoring and Entering Research curricula from the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research.