Fellows

Clarice Jackson

Clarice Jackson graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and is a member of the Trumbull Class of 2018. As an undergraduate, she participated in the Trumbull College Mellon Forum and conducted her senior thesis research on individual and interpersonal factors that affect perceptions of a shared positive event. Clarice is an independent educational consultant and works to help support students in their educational and personal trajectories. She is originally from Southern California. Her hobbies include reading, listening to a wide range of music, art, (slowly) learning the violin, and exploring restaurants and craft breweries.

Nick Jacobson

Leah Jehan

Linda Blenner Johnson

Judge Johnson is an Administrative Law Judge and Arbitrator for the Military and Federal Agencies where she presides over complex cases involving interpretation of contract clauses affected by United States Statutes and Federal Law.

She was the first woman Chairman of the CT Board of Mediation & Arbitration where she presided over hundreds of public and private sector cases. She decided contractual terms for the police and firefighters. She conducted gender gap wage and equity studies which effectuated more equitable pay scales. She served on the PA Job Reclassification Panel. She was an ALJ for The Workers’ Compensation Commission, chaired its Medical Dispute Panel and was certified as an Industrial Accident Specialist.

She is also a bas relief portrait artist, two of her works have been installed at Yale. She has been an Associate Trumbull Fellow for 22 yrs. Her hobbies include collecting musical instruments and traveling. She has explored 60 countries.

Jared Jonker

Jared Jonker runs business development at Palantir Technologies, a silicon-valley tech company operating in over 15 countries. In this capacity, Jared has focused his energies on understanding the nexus between technology, business and national security. He is currently responsible for coordinating Palantir’s work with the Department of Defense with a focus on Special Operations. Prior to joining Palantir, Jared served at the White House with the National Economic Council, as a strategy consultant, and as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. His interests include early-20th century British literature, rowing, hunting, and American history. Jared is proud to continue to be a part of the Trumbull community. He currently resides in Falls Church, Virginia with his wife and six children.

Mr. Jonker holds a B.A. with Honors in English Literature from Calvin College. He also earned his M.A. in International Relations and M.B.A from Yale University.

John Kao

Dubbed “Mr. Creativity” and a “serial innovator” by The Economist, John has been active in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship for four decades. He is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Yale and will be teaching a course on innovative thinking at Tsai CITY. John draws from his experience as a serial entrepreneur, musician, former business school professor, author, and Tony-nominated producer of film and stage. He is a graduate of Yale College (1972), Yale Medical School (1977) and Harvard Business School (1982); his undergraduate association was with Trumbull College.

John has held faculty appointments at Harvard Business School (associate professor), the MIT Media Lab (visiting professor), the US Naval Postgraduate School (distinguished visiting professor of innovation) and Stanford University (course head, Innovation Management, Bowman House). He is co-founder and chairman of ThayerMahan, Inc., a leader in maritime intelligence and a board member of the Midnight Oil Collective.

John is author of the best-seller Jamming – The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity and Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters and What We Can Do To Get It Back. He writes regularly in a Forbes.com column; his work has been covered by The New York Times, Fortune, The Economist, and the Colbert Report among others. John produced Golden Child in partnership with Yale Drama School associate dean Ben Mordecai for which he received a Tony nomination. He served as production executive on the film sex, lies and videotape, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and executive produced Mr. Baseball for Universal Studios. In the summer of 1969, he apprenticed to rock legend Frank Zappa.

Chandra Kelsey

Noreen Khawaja

Noreen Khawaja specializes in 19th and 20th century European intellectual history, and particularly on the shifting status of religious ideas in late modern Western philosophy and culture. Her research examines the collapse of metaphysics both historically and philosophically. She looks at this issue in relation to secularity, the retrieval of theological traditions, and the rise of critical discourses on religion. She is currently working on a book that studies how Christian models of conversion formed the basis of the ideal of personal authenticity in existential thought, focusing on Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger.

 She completed her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2012. In 2010 she was a DAAD Research Fellow in the Philosophy Faculty of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. She has recently published an article on the problem of individuality in Kierkegaard and Karl Löwith. At Yale, she teaches courses on modern Christian thought, phenomenology, existentialism, and on a variety of topics in the philosophy of religion.

Elizabeth Kinsley

“It’s a dream to lead admissions for Northwestern – an institution I love, with remarkable strengths to share,” Kinsley said. “To be able to shape the future of this community at the helm of a smart, hardworking and ever-fun team of colleagues I already know and respect makes this new role all the more thrilling.”

For the past four years, as director of communications in the Office of Undergraduate Admission at Northwestern, Kinsley has steered messaging strategies and led efforts in creating digital, print, social media and presentation content. She also trained staff in application evaluation and managed the selection process. 

Earlier in her career, as director of outreach and recruitment at Yale, Kinsley led initiatives that resulted in the most diverse class in the University’s history to that point.