Jill Bargonetti (born October 10, 1962) is an American professor at the City University of New York with dual appointments at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

[1] She grew up in a strategically multi-ethnic and culturally diverse Mitchel-Lama housing development on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

[3] Bargonetti’s first professional positions in the 1980s were as a dancer with a Harlem-based dance company called Dianne McIntyre’s Sounds in Motion[4] and as a research technician at Rockefeller University.

[2] Following her doctoral and postdoctoral training, in 1994 Bargonetti became an assistant professor at The City University of New York with appointments at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

In 1997, she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Bill Clinton for “scholarly work in cancer related studies of cell growth and gene expression and involvement of undergraduate, graduate and especially minority students in the discovery process.”[5]  She became a full professor at Hunter College in 2007, the Chair of the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCD) PhD subprogram of the CUNY Graduate Center in 2009, and the leader of the New York Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates (NY-RaMP) program at Hunter College in 2023.