Jennifer has 25 yrs. experience across nonprofits, philanthropy, and academia. For the last 7+ years she has worked as an independent consultant serving organizations across the nation principally in fundraising development, leadership coaching and DEI initiatives Her professional career has focused on uplifting marginalized communities to create a more equitable and just world, having held leadership roles at various nonprofits and foundations.

She also spent over 2 yrs. working overseas with the Volunteer Missionary Movement teaching post-secondary education and training women’s cooperatives in post-civil war El Salvador and spent a year in an AmeriCorps Jesuit organization at Boys Hope Girls Hope in New York City. Her love of the outdoors and nature began when she attended YMCA Camp St. Croix as a camper, and where she worked during summers as a counselor and Trail Director throughout college leading canoe trips down the St. Croix, Namekogen and Chippewa rivers.

She has held various Board roles at MN Asian American Health Coalition, Our Justice, PFund Foundation, and presently at TaikoArts Midwest.

She received her BA in psychology and women’s studies from the University of Minnesota, twin cities and her MPA in nonprofit management at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Jennifer lives with her spouse in Grand Teton National Park where they enjoy recreating in the beautiful outdoors. She has a daughter and two cats. She volunteers at the local Teton Raptor Center and enjoys seeing these beautiful birds get rehabilitated and released back into the wild.