Jen has spent her career doing one thing well: listening to people others overlook and turning what she hears into something that matters.
Jen is originally from Sutton. At the age of 9 her family relocated to Asia for her father’s work. Upon return, the family resettled in Grafton, and Jen graduated from Grafton Public Schools.
She then spent her young adult years in New York City, where she attended NYU and Columbia University before building a career in television and film. As a documentary filmmaker, she's made films from Massachusetts to Mount Everest, the West Bank, and beyond, and produced television watched by millions. The places were never the point. The people were.
That instinct has always carried off-camera — from counseling rape crisis survivors and supporting first responders after September 11th, to leading a Girl Scout troop, fostering animals, and riding the Pan-Mass Challenge. Wherever she's been, she's shown up. And she always gives 110%.
Now she's home — and everything she learned out there, she's putting to work here.
In Sutton, she chairs the Democratic Town Committee, is a member of the Sutton Cultural Council, produces the annual non-partisan Candidate Forum in Sutton, and is completing a Public Leadership Credential at Harvard Kennedy School.
Jen is running for State Representative because this district deserves someone who listens first, then acts. Someone who learns from the community before claiming to speak for it. Someone who finds the real problem before reaching for a solution. For years she gave voice to other people's stories. Now she's bringing that skill home — to tell our story. Your story.
On Beacon Hill, she'll fight for the basics: public schools, housing, health care, childcare, seniors, local economic opportunity. These get called women's issues, family issues, senior issues — but that's a way of dividing us, and making our issues smaller than they are. They're all affordability issues. Everyone's issues. Interconnected.
The money exists. We've just been told that tax breaks for job creators matter more than schools and health care. That's a choice. Jen will fight to make a different one — and she has the focus, persistence, and will to secure this district's share.
She's home. She's ready to work — for this community, for you. Always at 110%.
