Jane Lee, MSW, MBA

Jane Lee, MSW, MBA, is a doctoral student at the School of Social Work.  After an extensive career in the finance field, Jane transitioned to direct service work at All Our Kin, a non-profit organization based in New Haven, Connecticut, that trains, supports and sustains family child care providers. At All Our Kin, Jane served as a business coach, teaching classes and consulting  with individual family child care providers to build and sustain successful businesses.  To complement her client facing work, Jane also enrolled in and earned her MSW.  While earning her Master’s, she Jane worked as a research assistant at the Office of Early Childhood (OEC)-UConn Research Partnership, a School of Social Work research group embeded at the state agency; after graduation, continued that work as a Research Associate.  Working both positions enabled Jane to merge practice, research and policy work. Through further work in the field, Jane hopes to help lift up and improve the lives of family child care providers, many of whom are women of color who work for less than minimum wage, and to improve the lives of the many small children who rely on family child care providers for care during their preschool years.

Jane’s research interests focus on child care including outcome for children, economics and financing and family child care providers.  Jane earned her MSW from the UConn’s, School of Social Work, her MBA from the Yale School of Management, and her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University.

MSW
University of Connecticut

MBA
Yale University

Research Interests:
Child care outcomes
Economic justice for women
Costs of child care
Child care policy

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