facilitator. illuminator. dreamer. anti-racism practitioner.
process designer and guide.
Jen is an Atlanta-based queer mama, sewist and dreamer living on unceded Muscogee territory and on a Civil War battle site, with settler colonial ancestors who left Holland and England in the 1600s to claim Haudenosaunee, Lenape and Wampanoag land. Her personal antiracism journey began almost 20 years ago as a young activist. For more than a decade, Jen has guided groups across the U.S. to strengthen their social and racial justice work--as a facilitator, coach, consultant, and organizer. She is recognized in Atlanta and across the U.S. as one of the most highly skilled white anti-racist facilitators of our time. People know Jen as open, warm, strategic, reliable, and unwavering in her commitment to living with integrity and in community to build a future beyond white supremacy.
In partnership with Mattice Haynes and other Black, Indigenous, and People of Color colleagues, Jen supports leaders and multiracial organizations across the U.S. to deepen their antiracism commitments and skill by leading racial affinity groups, multiracial antiracism sessions, and long-term antiracist organizational culture change. Jen also supports white leaders and groups to break allegiance to whiteness, unravel white conditioning, and co-create white anti-racist culture and practices.
Jen is a masterful facilitator; she studied the art of process facilitation with elders at the VISIONS Inc. and Interaction Institute for Social Change before launching her independent consulting practice in 2018. Jen was a Senior Associate at the Interaction Institute for Social Change 2008-2018, where she co-led equity and inclusion consultations in fields including HIV/AIDS, juvenile justice, philanthropy, and public health. Jen was a member of the Board of Directors at Resource Generation (a group that organizes young people with wealth and class privilege towards equitable distribution of land, wealth and power) 2009-2017. After the murder of Michael Brown by a white police officer in 2014, Jen worked with other folks in the RG community to launch and lead the It Starts Today campaign, organizing $1.4 million in funding to more than 100 Black-led groups "organizing for Black liberation" across the U.S. In 2019 in a white accomplice role, Jen co-founded The Black mecca Project, with a vision of Atlanta as “a fully-realized Black mecca, a city free of anti-Black racism, classism, and gender oppression.” In 2019, Jen joined the Decolonize Race project (website coming soon!), an Indigenous-led effort which exists to radically reimagine the concept of race in service of human evolution, so that we can align humanity away from greed, extraction and disconnection to sacred connection.
Jen holds a B.A. in religion and anthropology from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard University. Jen is also a parent of a preschooler, a lover of ancient trees and oceans, a maker of clothing and quilts, an (out of practice) accordion player, an enthusiastic transplant to the South, and a cook.
In partnership with Mattice Haynes and other Black, Indigenous, and People of Color colleagues, Jen supports leaders and multiracial organizations across the U.S. to deepen their antiracism commitments and skill by leading racial affinity groups, multiracial antiracism sessions, and long-term antiracist organizational culture change. Jen also supports white leaders and groups to break allegiance to whiteness, unravel white conditioning, and co-create white anti-racist culture and practices.
Jen is a masterful facilitator; she studied the art of process facilitation with elders at the VISIONS Inc. and Interaction Institute for Social Change before launching her independent consulting practice in 2018. Jen was a Senior Associate at the Interaction Institute for Social Change 2008-2018, where she co-led equity and inclusion consultations in fields including HIV/AIDS, juvenile justice, philanthropy, and public health. Jen was a member of the Board of Directors at Resource Generation (a group that organizes young people with wealth and class privilege towards equitable distribution of land, wealth and power) 2009-2017. After the murder of Michael Brown by a white police officer in 2014, Jen worked with other folks in the RG community to launch and lead the It Starts Today campaign, organizing $1.4 million in funding to more than 100 Black-led groups "organizing for Black liberation" across the U.S. In 2019 in a white accomplice role, Jen co-founded The Black mecca Project, with a vision of Atlanta as “a fully-realized Black mecca, a city free of anti-Black racism, classism, and gender oppression.” In 2019, Jen joined the Decolonize Race project (website coming soon!), an Indigenous-led effort which exists to radically reimagine the concept of race in service of human evolution, so that we can align humanity away from greed, extraction and disconnection to sacred connection.
Jen holds a B.A. in religion and anthropology from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard University. Jen is also a parent of a preschooler, a lover of ancient trees and oceans, a maker of clothing and quilts, an (out of practice) accordion player, an enthusiastic transplant to the South, and a cook.
