Jennifer Bright is a D.Phil. candidate at the University of Oxford where she is writing her dissertation on policy processes under the Bloomberg administration, particularly in relation to the Applied Sciences initiative, which recently brought the Cornell Tech graduate school to New York City. Previously, she worked on urban policy in New York City and interned in the Public Sector Practice at McKinsey & Company, worked with the Health Justice Program at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest as a Liman Summer Fellow, at the New York Academy of Medicine working on the Journal of Urban Health and in the Health Policy Division, and with the Office of Capital Projects and Development in the office of the mayor during the Bloomberg administration. Ms. Bright holds a B.A. in ethics, politics and economics from Yale University and an M.A. in public policy from the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, UK.