Jennifer Hirsch is a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.

Hirsch also co-directed the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation.

[1] Her work spans topics such as gender, human sexuality, and public health.

Her book, A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families, which has been used widely in college classrooms, explores the lives of Mexican women in Atlanta and rural Mexico, with a focus on changing ideas of marriage among Latinx couples.

Hirsch served on the Board of Directors of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice from 2014-2020 (and as board chair from 2018-2020) and is a member of B'nai Jeshurun[2]