meet the team

JLG Education Services’ Director and Founder, Jen Gabel, has decades of experience as an educator at high performing public and independent schools. She has worked as a school counselor at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School for over two decades and served as an Associate Director of Admissions at Holderness School and Santa Catalina School. She was chosen to serve on the Counselor Advisory Board at Bryant University and Ithaca College. As a faculty member of NEACAC’s Summer Institute, Jen mentored colleagues on “both sides of the desk.” Jen’s counseling background and in-depth knowledge of colleges brings sanity and levity to the admissions process. She enjoys seeing students learn about themselves as they discover what they are looking for in a college. When Jen isn’t thinking about how to build supportive communities (particularly in a  rigorous, public school setting), she enjoys being outdoors–hiking, skiing, running (well, truthfully, it’s more of a walk/run now)–and she aspires to become someone who cooks with ease. Jen is a certified school counselor who earned an M.Ed. in Education and School Counseling from Boston University. A lifelong learner, Jen attended Harvard’s Summer Institute on College Admissions, she earned an M.Ed in Organizational Management from Endicott College, and is licensed as a school counselor director/supervisor. As an undergraduate at Rollins College, Jen was the recipient of the Marion Folsom Jr. Award for Excellence in English Literature and was an Algernon Sydney Scholar.