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After over eight years managing and evaluating food security and rural health programs in East Africa for a variety of international programs and governmental organizations, including the Gates Foundation and USAID, Jenny founded Guidelight Strategies, a strategic consulting firm focused on the design, development, and implementation of strategic funding, policy, and program initiatives in the food/ag, environment, and conservation sectors. From 2019 - 2020, Jenny developed a national landscape analysis of the barriers for ranchers and farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture in the US, diving deeply into financial, supply chain, and policy barriers and opportunities. She published a 2020 report, in partnership with Patagonia, highlighting her work: Barriers for Farmers and Ranchers to Adopt Regenerative Agriculture Practices in the US: Identifying Key Levers and Opportunities for Funders. She co-leads the SAFSF (Sustainable Ag and Food Systems Funders) special project on US fiber systems, alongside her colleague Sarah Kelley, and recently released a roadmap for investing in and revitalizing a national sustainable textile supply chain: The Fibers Roadmap: Integrated Capital Opportunities to Support U.S. Revitalization and Growth. Jenny was also selected as an RSF Integrated Capital Fellow for 2019, where she engaged with diverse forms of financial capital to address complex social and environmental problems through a set of intersectional lenses. As a FORA Member, Jenny has served as the co-chair of the FORA US Policy Working Group, as well as an active role in the Strategic Communications Working Group, and will now serve as Executive Director reporting to the Steering Committee. Jenny lives in San Francisco, California with her husband and dog and is an avid trail runner, surfer, biker, climber - basically spending any free moment she can outdoors.
Jennifer has worked and implemented development programs around the world, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Rwanda, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Malawi, Mali, Cambodia, Israel, and across South America.
Specialties: Food and agriculture, Strategic planning, foundation strategy, program development, funding strategy, corporate sustainability, non-profit development, non-profit consulting, media marketing, international development, international aid, foreign aid, grant writing, fundraising, special event planning 
