Mark C. Jefferson
Assistant Dean for Community Engagement
Mark C. Jefferson is responsible for strengthening and advancing the school’s commitment to being a welcoming, supportive and equitable institution in which every member — including students, faculty and staff — can thrive as individuals and as members of our community. He leads the school’s Committee on Community Engagement, and collaborates with all student-facing offices.
Jefferson previously served as assistant dean of community engagement and equity at Harvard Law School. He has also served as assistant director of admissions at the University of Michigan Law School, where he earned his J.D.
Before law school, he also worked as a middle school teacher, serving as the founding dean of students and a language arts teacher at the Seed Public Charter School in Washington and as director of alumni support at St. Ignatius Loyola Academy in Baltimore. He has also served as a chaplain at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel. After a year working for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, he decided to become a lawyer himself.
He was an associate at the law firm Thelen in New York before returning to Michigan to serve in the school’s admissions office.