Jen Kauper-Brown, MPH, is the Co-Director of the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Program in the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute. She has extensive experience and training in public health and community-academic partnerships, with an emphasis on program development and management, training design and delivery, and network building and facilitation. Her most recent position was with the University of Illinois-Chicago Neighborhoods Initiative. Prior to her move back to the Midwest, Jen was Program Director for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, a national organization focused on promoting health through community-academic partnerships, where she was responsible for managing the organization's CBPR-related projects and programs.