Served as communications chair for the New York-North Jersey Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club.Jen started out as a freelance fact checker for magazines in New York City. She then decided to get some reporting experience and found herself in Virginia covering federal courts, local government, health, and public safety. She moved to the Ocean State, where she worked forand took full advantage of the state’s generous beach pass policy.
After stints atshe’s happy to be back in New York City, working on the commerce side forJen earned her B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, where she wrote for the school newspaper. After a brief foray into educational publishing, she earned a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.If you combined the length of all the capillaries in the human brain, they would stretch about 400 miles.