1. Jennifer J Raab is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, one of the world's leading nonprofit stem cell organizations with a mission to accelerate cures for the major diseases of our time through stem cell research.
Jennifer Raab is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Cornell University, where she was accepted on early admission.
Jennifer Raab holds a Master's in Public Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs where she was a member of the Dean's Advisory Council.
Jennifer Raab was head of the Landmarks Preservation Commission when it unanimously approved Norman Foster's plans for Hearst Tower in fall 2001.
Jennifer Raab was special projects manager for the South Bronx Development Organization and director of public affairs for the New York City Planning Commission.
Jennifer Raab is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of directors of The After School Corporation and on the Steering Committee of the Association for a Better New York.
Jennifer Raab has been credited with transforming Hunter College from an open-admissions institution to a selective, highly ranked college with a highly diverse student population that comprises one of America's largest cohorts of immigrant and first-generation students, including the most selective Macaulay Honors program in the City University system.
Jennifer Raab presided over the 2011 completion of a $131 million eight-story facility in East Harlem, which is home to Hunter's Silberman School of Social Work.
The piece and its timing were later regretted by the Times' Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan, who noted that Jennifer Raab was being mentioned by supporters as a candidate for Chancellor of the City University system, a position that was opening up at the time.
On December 5,2022, Jennifer Raab announced that she would be leaving her role as President of Hunter College at the end of June 2023.
Jennifer Raab has had several opinion pieces published in the New York Daily News including op-eds on the need for increasing diversity in donor cell sources, Frances Perkins, legal challenges facing people with disabilities, and the importance of summer schooling.
Jennifer Raab was honored in 2002 with Hunter College High School's Distinguished Alumni Award.
In March 2012, Raab received Albany Law School's Miriam M Netter '72 Award at the School's 18th annual Kate Stoneman Day.
That same year, Jennifer Raab was a recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Leaders in Education Award by Education Update.
In 2011, Jennifer Raab was awarded the Bella Abzug Award in memory of Hunter alumna Bella Abzug, class of 1942, at the third annual Bella and Bella Fella Awards.
That same year, Jennifer Raab was honored at the annual Martina Arroyo Foundation Gala.
In 2022, Jennifer Raab received the Gold Honor Medal from the National Institute of Social Sciences for distinguished service to society and humanity.
Jennifer Raab has been a resident of Fieldston in the Bronx.
Jennifer Raab discussed her upbringing in a December 2024 profile in the Manhattan Jewish Sentinel.