| Jacqueline Rivers | |
| Birth Place: | Jamaica |
| Spouse: | Eugene F. Rivers, III |
| Education: | Harvard University (PhD) Harvard Radcliffe College (BA, MA) |
| Thesis Title: | On the Nature of Cultural Capital: The Reinforcing Action of Non-Elite Forms and Racial Differences in Student Achievement in the Middle Class |
| Thesis Url: | https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/13070039 |
| Thesis Year: | 2014 |
| Discipline: | Sociology |
Jacqueline Olga Cooke-Rivers is an American sociologist and a Senior Fellow at The King's College in New York City. 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. 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.
She is married to Eugene F. Rivers, III and lives in Dorchester, Boston.[5]