Jaden joined SHEEO as a State Policy Intern in May 2026. Jaden will aid SHEEO’s efforts in creating a state higher education governance database to better document the complexities that SHEEO agencies function within and develop a tool to help our SHEEO agencies identify peers from a functions perspective.

Jaden is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia’s Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education. She currently serves as a Research Assistant with the University System of Georgia’s Division of Research and Policy Analysis, where she conducts quantitative and policy analyses to support system leadership and state decision-makers. Her research interests exist at the nexus of higher education policy, political economies, and funding.

Jaden earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Jaden also holds a Master of Arts in Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park. While at Maryland, Jaden engaged with institutional, state, and federal higher education governance systems, learning valuable insights to bridge policy, research, and practice.