Jennifer received a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ in 2007.

With a strong focus on cultural communications, she spent a semester studying social policy and communications at Wroxton College in Oxfordshire, England in 2005. In 2006, she was involved in a Symposium on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution through the Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Office of Global Learning, which brought together leading world academics and practitioners for two days of keynote addresses, lectures, and workshops concerning the protection of human rights and the resolution of violent conflicts worldwide.

During her collegiate years, she participated in a number of United Nations Pathways Lectures, Video Conferences, and NGO Briefings offered by her university’s Global Education Department. In April 2007, she first learned of the FPCD at a “Timor-Leste and Its Nation Building” lecture given by Ambassador Nelson Santos. With a vision to help create a Post-Conflict Stories Database to add to the FPCD website, she is presently gathering a unique collection of stories and personal experiences of, and relating to, the cultures and peoples of post conflict nations.

In addition, she has served as Project Coordinator and is presently the Manager of an African Stories Database containing over 1,000 stories from more than 25 different countries in Africa for the African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories website. Jennifer is also an Associate Member of the PEN American Center, an association of writers working to advance literature, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship.

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