Jennifer Joe is the Whitney Family Endowed Professor of Accounting and the Cohen Family Diversity Officer in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. She studies how key institutional factors impact the quality of corporate financial reporting including audit litigation, regulations, audit quality and data analytic tools, and the role of cognition in decisions using accounting information. Her recent research investigates diversity in U.S. corporations and business schools. She is a frequent keynote speaker at corporate and academic events on accounting and diversity issues. As chief diversity officer of UD’s Lerner College, she creates the agenda for equity and inclusion and collaborates with corporate partners and alumni. She is an American Accounting Association (AAA) Presidential Scholar and has won the McLaughlin Prize for Ethics in Accounting Research, among numerous other awards.