Jacqueline Rivers

Jacqueline Olga Cooke-Rivers is an American sociologist and a Senior Fellow at The King's College in New York City.

Jacqueline Rivers
Born	Jamaica
Spouse	Eugene F. Rivers, III
Academic background
Education	Harvard University (PhD) Harvard Radcliffe College (BA, MA)
Thesis	On the Nature of Cultural Capital: The Reinforcing Action of Non-Elite Forms and Racial Differences in Student Achievement in the Middle Class (2014)
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology

Career

She has taught as a lecturer in sociology at Harvard University.^[1][2][3][4] She is the Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies and a former member of the Commission on Unalienable Rights.

Rivers was born in Jamaica.^[5] She attended Harvard Radcliffe College, from which she earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in psychology. She then earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 2014.^[1][4][6]

She is married to Eugene F. Rivers, III and lives in Dorchester, Boston.^[5]