Jenny Bailey

Jenny Meeden Bailey is a historian and policy analyst and began her career in 1981 as an intern for the Defense Policy Analyst of the Northeast-Midwest Institute in Washington, D.C. She practiced water district law in Texas for several years, and after a 17-year maternity leave, worked as a policy analyst for Houston’s then-Mayor Bill White. In 2012 as a Scholar-in-Residence at The African American Library at the Gregory School in association with Rice University, Bailey delivered a lecture series on one of the largest African-American cemeteries established in segregated Houston in the 19th century. Bailey holds a degree in political science from the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Houston. The mother of a daughter congenitally and symptomatically infected with CMV, Bailey has participated in medical research on CMV and has spoken frequently about therapies and educational strategies for deafness.