Jennifer Diascro, Ph.D., supervises the undergraduate and graduate internship courses. As a political scientist, she has served as a faculty member at the University of Kentucky and American University, a senior staff member at the American Political Science Association, and, most recently, was the associate academic director and interim executive director at the University of California Washington Program (UCDC). She was also a Supreme Court Fellow at the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Dr. Diascro is the founder of The Confident Undergrad, a coaching and mentoring practice for college undergraduates that supports prospective, current, and graduating college students as they develop the confidence to navigate their lives on their own terms.
Dr. Diascro earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science (with a focus on judicial politics) from Ohio State University and a B.A. in political science from the University of California, San Diego.