Jennifer Newcomer, Research Director
Jennifer Newcomer, Research Director
Jennifer Newcomer is the Research Director of the Colorado Futures Center. Her research focuses on social and built environment issues, particularly household and neighborhood lifecycles, housing affordability, and the forces impacting family economic wellbeing. Jennifer has spoken at numerous conferences and events on the full cross-section of her work.
Prior to working at CFC, she worked at the Piton Foundation directing the program Shift Research Lab. At Shift, Jennifer amassed a research portfolio, including noteworthy work in partnership with CFC that has garnered both local and national media attention, as well as informed local policy.
Jennifer also worked at the Denver Regional Council of Governments conducting land use forecasting and regional economic analysis. At the start of her career she worked in real estate and construction managing projects from planning and design to build out.
Jennifer is a doctoral candidate in Geography, Planning and Design at the University of Colorado Denver, and holds a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning with a focus on Economic Development from the University of Colorado at Denver, and a Bachelor’s in Environmental Design from the University of New Mexico.
