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Jacqueline Weis Liebergott is the 11th president of Emerson College and the first woman to hold this position since the College was founded in 1880. As president since 1993, she has overseen the enhancement and restructuring of Emerson’s distinctive communication and arts programs, the relocation and expansion of the school’s campus, and a significant increase in the size and quality of its student body. The Boston Globe, city officials and others have praised the development of Emerson’s new “Campus on the Common,” as a catalyst for the transformation of the adjoining Theatre District neighborhood.

Prior to becoming president, she served at Emerson as an academic administrator and as a professor in the Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders. A graduate of the University of Maryland, Dr. Liebergott earned her master's and doctoral degrees in speech-language pathology from the University of Pittsburgh. She has published numerous scholarly articles and papers dealing with language development patterns in children.

As a leader in the ProArts Consortium of Boston arts colleges, Liebergott was instrumental in the 1998 founding of the Boston Arts Academy, the city's first high school for the arts. She is also active in the Foundation of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the New England Council and other civic and professional organizations.