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Ms. Laurene Powell Jobs is founder and chair of the Emerson Collective, an organization that works with a range of entrepreneurs to advance domestic and international social reform efforts.  The Collective primarily focuses on achieving scalable solutions to improve academic outcomes for under-resourced students in America's public schools and has made strategic investments in a number of results-driven education reform ventures.  Additionally, the organization brings together individuals working on innovative solutions to pressing social problems and provides a venue for dialogue with members of the broader community.

Ms. Powell Jobs also serves as president of the board of College Track, an after-school program she founded in 1997 to prepare underserved high school students for success in college.  Started in East Palo Alto, College Track has expanded to serve students in Oakland, San Francisco and New Orleans.  The program’s intensive academic and extracurricular program is designed to ensure admittance to and graduation from college.  All of the program's graduates have completed their secondary education and gone on to college.

In addition to her work with the Emerson Collective and College Track, she serves on the boards of directors of the New America Foundation, Teach For America, NewSchools Venture Fund, Stand for Children and Conservation International. She also serves on the White House Council for Community Solutions.

Ms. Powell Jobs holds a BA and a BSE from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  Earlier in her career, she spent several years working in investment banking and later co-founded a natural foods company in California.