Jayne Catherine Conway

Jayne was born in England and immigrated to the United States as a child. She holds a Bachelor of Science in engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

After earning her MBA, she worked as a strategy consultant for Bain & Company and then held various C-suite leadership positions at Dunkin' Brands, Gulf Oil, Planet Fitness and Alex and Ani. While at Alex and Ani , she had the privilege of partnering with First Lady Michelle Obama on the 'Let Girls Learn' campaign. It was here she developed her passion for raising awareness for women's lack of access to higher education and education in general. Jayne was a teaching fellow at Harvard Business School before she penned the Gilded Cage of Woman.

Jayne and her uncle rediscovered the lost story of Margaret Bryan when they were working on a family history project together. An eighteenth-century trailblazer in the education of women in the sciences, who found her path when there was no path for her.