With hands down the most extreme commute in the Razoo community, Jen splits time between Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and the eastern seaboard.
Despite her revolving domicile policy, Jen is A. addicted to startups and B. a habitual hanger-on in the DC/MD nonprofit sphere (wait, that came out wrong...).
A longtime Dress for Success Washington DC Newsletter Committee member, volunteer and member of Beyond the Glass Ceiling/Women Rule DC groups, she remains connected to friends struggling, ahem, thriving in nonprofit management careers.
Although volunteering for crazy stunts like waving a placard for Green party candidates in the rain is just the type of extreme environment she likes best, Jen didn't intend to get much more involved with the nonprofit world than "love em and leave em" one-off, hourly gigs.
Until, as Director at a customized research startup, she sat down to a meeting with executives at a small Maryland nonprofit. A week later, Jen joined the MEDBANK of Maryland Board of Directors as its youngest member, unanimously elected as Vice Chair.
Jen now gets her jollies sparking healthcare change.
She's still glass-half-full enough to donate time to various health and wellness startup initiatives, including Nexthealth (Holland), Medical Education Evolution (international), and Health 2.0 (US).
If there's a need, and no organization to serve, Jen scratches the itch, coerces, ahem, convinces a consortium of buddies to get involved, and gets the ball rolling.
Jen spends far more time at the keyboard of her Dell, which she berates ceaselessly for not being a MacBook Air, than is probably healthy.
Her incessant online connecting is eclipsed only by the fact that she meets people offline just as regularly, usually at events she finds out about via the cloud on Twitter, LinkedIn, Crowdvine, Ning, etc.
Surrendering to the fact that carpal tunnel is most likely inevitable - Jen covers healthcare innovation at Health Management Rx, health policy at Health Central Network, tweets healthcare news at Twitter.com (near-hourly), microblogs health and wellness topics at Medical Microblog, and encourages the transfusion of ideas, people, and yes, dollars from the US to Holland at Nexthealth.NL. And yes. She drinks a lot of coffee and does Yoga. She doesn't drive a Prius though. Yet...
When she isn't leaving her favorite dacshund Oskar and husband behind to house sit in Holland, Jen "donors up" at supermarkets with frightening regularity, holds the door for people behind her out of habit, and is trying to figure out the mysteries of the universe - like how to be a good person and where all those socks go when eaten by the dryer.
