Jen believes in a world where all people are nourished. As founder of Kitchen Table Consulting, she facilitate the hard conversations, designs the convenings, and develops the leaders who carry food and farm systems and broader systems-change work forward.

To do this work and help client organizations, Jen has brought in grants and excels at showing organizations how to use the tools of our time, including AI paired with detailed specifics and prompts to draft high quality proposal responses.

Increasingly Jen works in two ways: with the organizations and coalitions doing the work, and with the funders supporting it — bringing fractional program strategy, grantee learning, and listening processes to foundations, and deep facilitation and leadership development to the communities on the ground. Knowing how both sides think is what makes the work impactful.

She's also a book author and speaker, passionate about empowering girls. She volunteers as a Board Member for her local food cooperative, for her local community foundation, and fundraises to send girls in Haiti to private schools.

At heart, all of it is the same work: gathering people around the table, and making sure everyone there is nourished — and heard.