Prior to her role as Manager, Housing Accelerator Program, Jenn was a Community Business Account Manager with Vancity credit union’s Business and Commercial team since 2006. At VCU, Jenn managed a diverse portfolio of primarily not-for-profit organizations and impact businesses. She provided a range of financing options to members including cash-flow lending, business mortgages and loans and construction financing. Her real passion, however, was in assisting not-for-profits to acquire real estate, particularly for affordable housing purpose for equity-denied communities.

Jenn has deep roots in community and social justice. She has held leadership positions with a number of non-profit organizations, both at a staff and Board level. She is also a self-professed political animal – she served during a by-election period as the NDP MLA for the provincial riding of Vancouver-Fairview, making history as the first out lesbian elected to the BC Legislature. She has also held various positions on provincial and federal riding executives.

Outside of work, Jenn enjoys going to the gym, playing pickleball, cooking, the local arts scene and spending quality time with her partner and close friends.

Jenn is grateful to live, work and play on the traditional, unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔ /Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.