About

Dr. Jennifer Porst is the founder and lead consultant for Expert Edge. She has twenty years of experience in higher education, publishing, and graduate admissions.

She grew up in the Dallas area and attended Ursuline Academy of Dallas for high school. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in film and television at the University of Notre Dame, and then worked in the media industry before deciding to return to academia. She earned her Master of Science in Education and Social Policy with a focus on high school English from Northwestern University, and taught junior and senior high school English in public and private high schools in Chicago and Dallas.

When she decided to make the move to higher education, she enrolled in the University of California at Los Angeles and earned her PhD in Cinema and Media Studies. She worked as a professor of Media Arts and served on admissions and curriculum committees at Emerson College in Boston and the University of North Texas. She has published her research in books, academic journals, and online publications, and presented her work around the world.

She is now using her experience in education and publishing to support students in their successful application to undergraduate and graduate programs in the United States. She is an associate member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association and a member of the Texas Association for College Admission Counseling. She is currently completing coursework for an Independent Educational Consultants certificate at the University of California, Irvine.