Personal Biography:

Jenny is the Community Relations Officer for Citibank (West), F.S.B. Her main responsibility is to create strategic partnerships with groups in the Central Valley that will serve to build the economic base of the community. Jenny joined Citibank after having served as the Executive Director of the Congress of California Seniors Education & Research Fund, a statewide organization dedicated to assisting seniors with issues of healthcare, affordable prescription drugs, housing, transportation, technology and consumer protection.

Prior to her position with the Congress of California Seniors Education and Research Fund, she served as Academy Fellow at the Greenlining Institute where she focused on energy, telecommunications, and the digital divide. She has also served as a trial assistant to the law offices of Kazan, McClain, Edises, Fernandez, Lyons & Farrise in Oakland, California and as a Legislative Assistant to Assembly Member Marco Antonio Firebaugh.

Jenny is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.

Goals:

During my fellowship, I hope to learn about the various ways that technology can be used to empower communities, especially those communities that are hard to reach because of linguistic, geographic, and economic barriers. My hope is to take the knowledge I acquire through the Zero Divide Fellowship back to the communities I work with in order to create outreach programs and public policy that has a positive impact on people's lives.