She earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Minnesota and an undergraduate degree in French and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. Jennifer developed and implemented a primary integrated behavioral health care program at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in south-central Minnesota. In this role, she worked as both clinician and administrator providing trauma-informed clinical therapeutic services to clients and leadership to the Behavioral Health Department. She also spent time living in southern France working primarily with low-income, Muslim immigrant adolescents in the public school system.