Jenna Parro

Jenna Parro, MHA is Director of Cross System Strategy and Practice at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, where she leads transformative mental health systems change across colleges and communities. With over a decade of experience in public health and social impact, Jenna specializes in designing scalable frameworks that bridge organizational boundaries to address complex social challenges. At the Meadows Institute, she partners with colleges and universities, developing comprehensive approaches to campus mental health while also creating new behavioral health pathways that address critical workforce shortages and promote economic mobility. In her previous role at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, Jenna built coalitions focused on addressing social and structural drivers of health in communities. Her expertise spans strategic partnership development, systems analysis, and translating complex research into actionable policy and practice solutions. Jenna began her career as a health educator directly serving college students, bringing a deep understanding of direct service delivery to her current systems-level work. An alumnus of Leadership Austin’s Emerge program, Jenna has been recognized for her leadership and civic engagement. She holds an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from The University of Texas at Austin and completed a Master of Health Administration at Texas State University.