Jack Loveridge grew up in El Paso, Texas, where his parents were educators in local schools. His mother was raised in Segundo Barrio, the daughter of Mexican immigrants. His father’s family came to the Borderlands from Ohio to support White Sands Missile Range.

A graduate of El Paso’s public schools, Jack earned an honors B.A. in History from Stanford in 2007 with full financial aid, followed by an M.Phil. in International Development from Oxford in 2009, supported by an English-Speaking Union Scholarship.

He later worked as a K–12 education policy analyst in Oakland, California and Washington, DC before beginning a Ph.D. in History at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2014, he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to India, where he completed fieldwork for his dissertation on the technological and economic changes underpinning South Asia’s Green Revolution.

Returning to the U.S., he wrote his dissertation as a doctoral fellow in the International Security Studies Program at Yale. After earning his doctorate in 2017, he taught in the Social Sciences program at Cooper Union in New York and then completed a postdoc at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 2019.

Jack then spent two years building a non-profit, Initiate: Digital Rights in Society, which advocated for more informed and inclusive policy discussions around emerging AI technologies.

Initiate’s programming contributed to the Paris Peace Forum’s work on algorithmic governance across the Global South. Building on that work, Jack served as the Forum’s Senior Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence through 2022.

After returning to El Paso, Jack co-founded and is CEO of Panoculum, a digital history startup, in 2023. He also serves as Vice President of the El Paso ISD Board of Trustees, an office to which he was elected in May 2025.