Jane Fernandes

Jane K. Fernandes
President of Antioch College
Assumed office
August 16, 2021
Personal details
Born
Jane Frances Kelleher

(1956-08-21) August 21, 1956 (age 68)
Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse
James John Fernandes
(m. 1988)
EducationTrinity College, Connecticut (BA)
University of Iowa (MA, PhD)

Jane Fernandes (born August 21, 1956) is an American educator and social justice advocate. As of August 2021, Fernandes is the President of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.[1] She previously served as president of Guilford College from 2014 to 2021.

In 1990, Fernandes became the first Deaf woman to lead an American school designed for deaf, hard of hearing, blind, and deaf-blind students, serving at the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind in Honolulu until August 1995.[2]

  1. ^ "Antioch College names new president". Yellow Springs News, August 4, 2021. 4 August 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  2. ^ https://www.hsdb.k12.hi.us/about-hsdb/hsdb-history [bare URL]