Jennifer Kuiper, M.P.P., has over fifteen years experience managing and designing programs, evaluations, and budgets in diverse policy arenas, often in international, cross-cultural environments. Ms. Kuiper's fields of expertise include: welfare reform, childcare assistance, child welfare, conflict resolution, nonviolence, and third-party civilian peacekeeping. She has lived and worked overseas with extended periods of time in the Middle East, Egypt, Guatemala, Zambia and the United Kingdom. She is especially skilled at building multi-national partnerships and working in politically-charged contexts.

Ms. Kuiper has particular expertise in qualitative analysis and has overseen large and small-scale field studies both in the United States and abroad. With BPA, she managed multi-county site visits for the state of Colorado's evaluation of its welfare program and for the state of California's Court Appointed Special Advocates programs. She developed and presented a supply-demand analysis of licensed child care for Alameda County (CA) and a threshold analysis of federal and state public benefits, determining cut-off levels at varying wage rates in Colorado.

In addition to her work with BPA, Ms. Kuiper has designed and initiated CIPUSA's Palestine Leadership Project, conducted the Nonviolent Peaceforce's needs assessment for third-party unarmed civilian peacekeepers in Israel and Palestine, and oversaw data collection and preparation of a urban planning report on industrial growth management on Thailand's Eastern Seaboard. She was contracted to design a computer-based evaluation system for the Results Framework for USAID-Zambia and managed grants funding conflict resolution and rule of law programs in Central and Eastern Europe. She has served as executive director of both the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education developing experiential learning and mentoring programs, and the San Francisco International Program, which provided on-the-job and cross-cultural J-1 visa learning experiences for mid-career professionals from both developed and developing countries.