As the Director of School and Community Programs at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jeanette provides strategic leadership and vision for Kennedy Center’s local and national arts education partnerships with schools and community-based organizations.  School and Community Programs include D.C. School and Community Initiatives, Changing Education Through the Arts, Turnaround Arts, Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child, and Partners in Education. 

Prior to her appointment as the lead for School and Community programs, Jeanette served as Director of D.C. School and Community Initiatives from 2001 to 2017 leading Kennedy Center’s relationships with Washington, D.C. public and charter schools, and local community collaborators, and was lead for the former Dance Theatre of Harlem Residency at Kennedy Center and Musicals in the Schools. Jeanette's current program portfolio includes directing a comprehensive partnership with DCPS and DC charter schools, performance access programs, Any Given Child national collective impact initiative, and the Kennedy Center’s Youth Council, which Jeanette founded in 2016. 

As a charter member of the Kennedy Center’s Social Impact pod, Jeanette contributes to vision and planning for the REACH campus programming and curriculum. Jeanette is the president of the Boris L. Henson Foundation board of directors, immediate past president and current member of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Project (DESAP) board of directors, and additionally serves on the board of directors of the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative, CapX Lab School, and MINDPOP.    Previously, Ms. McCune served as Director of Community and Education Programs at the Choral Arts Society of Washington and Marketing Manager at American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.  Jeanette earned a BA in Music/Minor in Business and an MBA from Drake University, Des Moines, IA.