Jennifer works in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. She serves as the program manager for the DOE EERE Lab-Corps Pilot Program and as manager of the Colorado Center for Renewable Energy Economic Development (CREED) program. In her role with Lab-Corps, Jennifer leads a team of laboratory and industry partners to develop and deliver a curriculum that enables laboratory researchers to gain access to direct market feedback. This allows them to start to define the limits of the gap that exists between the readiness of their technology in its current state, and the point at which a commercial partner is ready to pick it up and take it to market, and ultimately realize a viable path to commercialization.

Prior to joining NREL in 2009, Jennifer served as the International Agreements Administrator and Export Compliance coordinator for MPRI Inc., an L-3 Communications Company, in Alexandria, Virginia. In her previous life, she was a sergeant in the U.S. Army with assignments that included First Armored Division in Germany, Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, and the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon.

Jennifer received her MBA from the University of Denver's Daniels' College of Business.