Jillian McEneaney

Jillian McEneaney joined Silent Spring Institute as a Research Associate in 2024. She supports Silent Spring’s Safer Chemicals Program, where she is applying her interests in the mechanisms of endocrine disruption to the Institute’s research on chemically induced breast carcinogenesis. Working in collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Kay, she is investigating the biological implications of chemical exposures on mutagenesis and endocrine pathways. 

Jillian received her BA from Harvard College where she concentrated in human evolutionary biology, focusing on human health and behavior. Her undergraduate research aimed to understand how selection for behavior changed the morphology of cerebellums in foxes. She is broadly interested in the relationship between hormones, behavior, and health and has previously worked in psychiatry research at Boston Children’s Hospital and in drug delivery research at a small startup. 

In her spare time, Jillian enjoys volunteering with YES Kids Track and Cross Country programs, hiking in the White Mountains, and being outdoors.