Jennifer is the CEO of Story Changes Culture, new media platform and consulting practice that builds content and connections that change culture and elevate leaders who are redefining the future through technology and community. Clients include or have included Google, Puppet, IBM, Comcast NBCUniversal, Linux Foundation, Intel, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Holberton School, Apache Kafka, Drupal Association, Evernym, BluBracket, Sovrin Foundation and Storj Labs, among others. She has been recognized for her storytelling acumen by BusinessInsider, who ranked her among the best PR people in tech and by CIO.com, which identified her as one of the most influential women in open source.

Jennifer was on the founding team of the Linux Foundation, the industry’s leading technology consortium, where she focused on establishing the organization as the predominant thought leader on open source development and governance and garnering developer attention for open source projects and new technologies. She started the communications function at the Foundation as an individual contributor and grew it to a 30-person team of PR, social media and content production professionals. Prior to the Linux Foundation, Jennifer worked at the VP level at agencies focused on VC-funded startups and developer communities. Clients included Cisco, Creative Commons, Google, MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce), Sleepycat (acquired by Oracle,) and VMware, among others. 

Jennifer is also the creator and executive producer of the Chasing Grace Project, a three-episode docuseries exclusively dedicated to elevating women’s voices and advancing a constructive narrative about inclusivity. It aims to recruit and retain women for an industry that desperately needs their contribution and to give women a platform to be seen and heard for their experiences. She is a Women’s Media Center SheSource expert and co-host/producer of the Hyped podcast. She is regularly quoted in publications such as Forbes, TechCrunch, BusinessInsider, TechTarget and more. She also pens a regular blog on Medium and a column on CIO.com. She is based in Portland, Oregon.