Jacqueline Gallo

Jacqueline Gallo, PhD, is an anthropologist of education whose ethnographic research examines how culture, community, and institutional life shape the experiences of young women in East Africa. She earned her PhD at the University of Cambridge after 18 months of embedded fieldwork living on-site at a boarding school in Karamoja, Uganda. She has presented her research across four continents, served as a Visiting Scholar in Nigeria, and conducted archival research at the Vatican's Apostolic Library, one of the world's oldest research collections. Jacqueline serves on the Board of Trustees at Julia Morgan School for Girls in Oakland, and has spent her career as a teacher, administrator, and Head of School across public, charter, independent, and international schools.

Jacqueline is also the founder of Ejoka Education, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit in its founding year. Ejoka partners with Karamojong communities in Uganda to close the gap between finishing secondary school and building an independent life, the same question of whether an institution's stated purpose is actually lived that anchors this keynote.