Jennifer Newsom coleads the Einaudi Center's inequalities, identities, and justice global research priority.

She is is a licensed architect, artist, and principal of Dream The Combine, cofounded with Tom Carruthers in 2013. Her research lies in the space between real, tangible bodies made of flesh, steel, glass, etc. and the perception of these bodies through vision. As an architect, she examines racial constructs in the context of built constructions, where these spatial metaphors act as mechanisms for connectedness and engagement.