Jennifer Weiss is a public health consultant with over 15 years’ experience in health education, policy, grant writing and research. Prior to starting her consultancy practice, she served as policy director for the Medicare Rights Center, a national, nonprofit consumer services and advocacy organization, and was Health Literacy Coordinator for Literacy Partners, a New York City-based literacy organization. She is also a non-fiction writer and is the co-author of Brooklyn by Name: How the Streets, Neighborhoods, Parks, Bridges and More Got their Names (NYU Press, 2006), and Citizen-In Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents (Harper, 2010). Jennifer has a Master’s Degree in Public Health Education from Teacher’s College, Columbia University.