Jen is an Erie Benedictine sister, currently living in Erie, Pennsylvania. There Jen shares time with some of the terrific people of L’Arche as her full-time gig, and for fun teaches a couple of classes at Mercyhurst, a local Catholic college. She is an enthusiastic amateur musician – doing her best with the trumpet and French horn. Not so long ago Jen was an art teacher living and working in and around Boston, Massachusetts. Jen has a couple of graduate theology degrees from Boston College, and a degree in studio art from Hampshire College.

As a committed art student, Jen has held many random jobs. She has sold shoes, worked in a copy and print center, helped to run an after-school art program, and even spent two unpleasant weeks working at a pizza shop. And although her original plan of becoming a world-famous artist did not quite pan out, Jen is enjoying her pleasantly eclectic life. Jen was born and raised half-way in Hawaii, and the rest of the way in the Boston area. Jen misses the ocean but she thinks the lake is pretty great.