Before becoming a teacher, Jennifer worked as a physical therapy aide and as an aquatic therapy and fitness instructor. Over the past several years Jennifer has also worked with the National Park Service, Santa Monica National Recreation Area, as a Teacher Ranger. In this position, she is helping to develop education programs that incorporate the Next Generation Science Standards. As a Science Master Teacher for NEA, Jennifer has written lessons for the NEA Better Lesson website. She was also a teacher leader at the 2015 CSU Summer STEMposium week long professional development for K-8 teachers, and has been involved in Ventura County's NGSS Leadership Team as well as Conejo Valley Unified School District's NGSS Leadership Team. Jennifer has been a volunteer for GCSN since 2016 and was elected to the GCSN board in 2018.​