Jennifer Bowie is Chief of Staff for University Advancement at Ohio University. She serves as a key member of the advancement leadership team—managing executive communication, helping to facilitate fundraising efforts for priority institutional initiatives, supporting VP and University President prospect management, and managing Advancement human resources and division-wide strategy. Prior to that appointment, she had been AVP of advancement communication and marketing and chief of staff (since July 2018), and prior to that had been executive director of development, advancement communication and marketing, since March of 2011. She also has served OHIO as director of development for annual giving and was the director of development for the annual fund & communications. She began her career in development in 1999 at OHIO as a major gifts officer. In 2001 she became the director of development communications.

Jennifer is a two-time Ohio University graduate, having earned her bachelor’s of science in journalism from the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism in 1994 and her master’s of science in communication in 1999. While pursuing her master’s, Jennifer taught a number of courses in the Scripps School including feature writing and essential college grammar.

Prior to beginning work on her master’s in 1997, and embarking on a career in higher education, Jennifer worked in healthcare communications for Deaconess Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.