Joan Jeffri has a background as both a manager and an artist. For the last six years she has developed and taught courses in arts and management at Columbia University, both in the School of the Arts and the Graduate School of Business. Jeffri also advises corporations, public and private funding organizations, and arts and educational institutions on arts policy and programming. As an actress she has appeared on, off, an off off Broadway in such productions as The Homecoming, King Lear, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. She received her education and training at Columbia University , Boston University, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and the HB Studio.