Jacqueline Olga Cooke-Rivers is an American sociologist and a Senior Fellow at The King's College in New York City.
She has taught as a lecturer in sociology at Harvard University. She is the Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies and a former member of the Commission on Unalienable Rights.
Rivers was born in Jamaica. She attended Harvard Radcliffe College, from which she earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in psychology. She then earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 2014.
She is married to Eugene F. Rivers, III and lives in Dorchester, Boston.