Jennifer C. Galambos Named Kent Place Head of School

The Kent Place School Board of Trustees has unanimously and enthusiastically appointed Jennifer C. Galambos to serve as the eleventh Head of School, effective July 1, 2017. Jennifer will succeed Susan C. Bosland, who will leave Kent Place after 18 years of excellent service

Jennifer is in her ninth year at The Bryn Mawr School, a K–12 all-girls school in Baltimore, where she is the Assistant Head of School and Upper School Director. Before that, Jennifer was its Middle School Director. Earlier, she was the Middle School principal at the Bullis School, in Maryland; the director of admission at Green Farms Academy, in Connecticut; the director of admission and financial aid at Saddle River Day School, in New Jersey; and a history teacher, a dorm parent and a coach at the Perkiomen School, in Pennsylvania.

As Assistant Head at Bryn Mawr, Jennifer worked tirelessly with the Board of Trustees to create the school’s Strategic Plan, “The Bryn Mawr Way: A Contemporary Vision of What Girls Need to Thrive,” centering on “the whole girl for the whole day,” in order to balance strong academics with care and nurture. She was the chief architect of the Vision for the Upper School, which comprised four themes: balancing traditional academic values with innovation, student wellness, building character in the 21st-century and teachers’ lives and schedules.

Jennifer received her doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University; her master’s degree in education with a concentration in private school leadership from Loyola University, in Maryland; and her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Franklin and Marshall College.

“I look forward with great enthusiasm to joining the Kent Place community,” said Galambos. “Kent Place's outstanding students, as well as the talented faculty, staff, parents, trustees and alumnae with whom I met during my visits, impressed me tremendously. I am eager to lead this accomplished and vibrant school into a future that will be rewarding to all, and I am grateful for the tremendous accomplishments that Sue Bosland has achieved during her extraordinary time at the school.”

Kent Place’s Head of School Search Committee worked with the firm Educator’s Collaborative on the eight-month search, which attracted a large pool of extremely talented candidates dedicated to educating young women.

“Jennifer is uniquely qualified to serve as the next leader of Kent Place,” said James H. McGraw IV, chair of the Board of Trustees. “Her deep understanding of 21st-century education for girls, of the programs, of the administrative structure and of the community necessary to support that education and — perhaps most important — her embrace of the Kent Place mission all made her an outstanding candidate. We look forward welcoming Jennifer into our community.”