Jennifer spent her professional years as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, providing and coordinating a range of rehabilitation counseling and case management services to injured workers. She currently volunteers as a GED counselor at Youth Care’s Orion center and has previously volunteered as co-editor of the Leschi News, in a Women’s shelter, Meals on Wheels and Baby Care. She recently received a Masters degree in Criminal Justice at Seattle University. While in the program she participated in several studies including a drug and crime observation study in Downtown Seattle’s Pike/Pine corridor. She also assisted the Attorney General’s office in charting discovery for the Kevin Coe Sexual Predator case. She has a BA in Psychology from SUNY Buffalo and in her spare time loves to paint and travel with her family.