Jennifer A. Marshall is a Vice president of The Heritage Foundation.

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As Director of Domestic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation, Jennifer A. Marshall oversees research in areas that determine the character of the culture: Education, Marriage, Family, Religion and Civil society.

Marshall heads the Think tank’s Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation for Religion and Civil society.

She also oversees FamilyFacts.org, an online source of easy-to-share charts, briefs, videos and reports on the latest Social Science Research on family and religious practice.

She also edits Heritage’s annual Index of Culture and Opportunity.

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In 2010, National Journal named Marshall one of 20 "power players" in Washington for her work on school choice and other education reforms.

Before joining Heritage in 2003, Marshall worked on Cultural policy issues at Empower America, a free-market Think tank.

Prior to that, she was senior Director of family studies at the Family Research Council and taught at an American school in Lyon, France.

Previously, in 1994-2000, she worked as a Educational Policy Analyst for Family Research Council.

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Marshall collaborates with Heritage colleagues to explore how Moral values and Civil society relate to issues such as Limited government, a strong National economy and Foreign policy.

Marshall contributes a regular column on issues of faith and family to the McClatchy-Tribune News Service, placing her perspective in dozens of the nation’s best newspapers and affiliated websites.

She has spoken at national and international forums, testified before Congress and appeared on numerous radio and television shows, among them C-SPAN’s premier talk show, Washington Journal and PBS’To the Contrary.

Jennifer is the author of "Now and Not Yet: Making Sense of Single Life in the Twenty-First Century" (Multnomah Publishers, 2007).

The book evaluates the cultural, practical and spiritual issues that marriage-minded young women confront as the age of first marriage continues to rise in U.S.

Marshall holds a Master's degree in Statecraft and world Politics from the Washington-based Institute of World Politics and a Bachelor's degree in French from Wheaton College, IL, where she also earned teacher’s certification.

Besides, Marshall holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Reformed Theological Seminary.

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Jennifer currently resides in Arlington, VA.