Jennifer Pitsch

Jennifer Pitsch is an economics and political science undergraduate double-major. She was an honors student and Regents scholar during her undergraduate career at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. During her time abroad at the University of Oxford, she studied international economics.

When she came across a young homeless man being degraded by someone in her community; when she noticed a crowd of onlookers doing nothing to help, she knew that she had to look deeper into the issue. This experience inspired her to write her first book, Displaced Generation, in which she explores young adult homelessness, mental health, education, policy prevention, and successful housing programs. Throughout the course of writing her book, she gathered interviews from over 20 different social innovators, researchers, activists, and non-profit leaders, as well as young individuals with firsthand experiences of homelessness. She also spent countless hours reading books and scientific articles that dive into the different paths for solving homelessness.

In her spare time, Jennifer is an amateur cornhole player and avid Nebraska Huskers fan. She is a spinach artichoke dip connoisseur and a firm believer that caramel is pronounced ‘car-ml,’ not ‘car-a-mel.’