Jenna is an innovative, creative, and international community partnerships builder and project manager who is passionate about developing people as well as developing interdisciplinary systems and solutions for social impact. Her mission and purpose are to help others maximize their potential and create transformational, global, and human-centered learning community experiences.
She also has over 15 years of diverse experience in curating, designing, and enhancing hundreds of meaningful and interactive educational and innovative programs, events, partnerships, and community learning experiences for clients in higher education, accelerator & incubator, hospitality, creative arts, experiential marketing, journalism, workforce development, and nonprofit sectors. She contributed to scaling the Edtech startup, Trilogy Education Services, which grew from 20 to 1,000 employees within three years and, later, was successfully acquired by EdX/2U, Inc. Her three-year study abroad and work abroad experiences in Spain and Argentina changed her life, worldview, and her creative approach to solving problems.
Currently, at OpenClassrooms, she helps companies receive complimentary upskilling tech and marketing training for their current employees and she helps companies source and hire tech & marketing apprentices throughout Southern California. Openclassrooms helps people from underrepresented backgrounds break into the industry and make a career change. In doing so, Openclassrooms helps businesses become more diverse, tech savvy, and grow.