A lover of coffee, costumes, spreadsheets, and celebrating, Jen has been a part of the ROOTS Dance admin team since 2017. As a mom of 6 performers, she understands the joy that comes from watching your children grow in their craft, gaining skill and confidence as they practice and discover their gifts. She finds it so rewarding to help other parents find the right fit for their dancer’s needs and to provide excellent customer service to the ROOTS families. She also loves getting to know and work along with so many talented dance mentors and admin staff.

Collaboration, connection and creativity are three very important values to Jen. Having taught in a classroom for years, she appreciates the hard work of classroom management, lesson prep and investing in each student. She loves being a support for the ROOTS Dance mentors in any way she can.

Jen loves any opportunity to dress up in costume with the Christmas parade and Halloween week being a couple highlights each year! Being a part of creating camp curriculum, interactive chalk walls, and finding fun ways to help instill valuable life truths satisfies that creative teacher/author part of her. Triple Threat Camp week is her favorite work week of the year as all her favorite things come together in a performance- dance, singing, acting, costumes, props, and a dream team of camp staff.

Having moved around a lot in her life, she understands being new to an area and trying to find connection. Jen strives to help dancers and their families find community at ROOTS, to make all students feel welcome and seen, and make being a part of ROOTS easy for parents.

If she isn’t at ROOTS, you will probably find Jen on her couch with her hubby, Mike, watching a British tv show, karaoking with her family, practicing cello, or on her porch swing watching the birds and chipmunks. Or you might run into her at a thrift store hunting for the latest costume supplies.