She established a nonprofit human rights organization in 1997 that is an active NGO with the United Nations. She works with patients and communities, companies and individuals who choose to practice mediation, facilitation and conflict transformation. In addition to a solo medical practice, Dr. Jennings builds banjos and Appalachian instruments in her studio, Storygourd Workshop located in central Virginia. Her instruments have been distributed in Canada, the UK and USA. She is the descendant of Black Appalachian and Scottish farmers from the mountains of Kentucky’s Cumberland Gap. Read more about Jennings work with the banjo in the Orange County Review (May 26, 2014).