Visionary executive excelling in conceiving, strategizing, and implementing complex projects across disciplines, leveraging teamwork for exceptional success at scale. From bringing award winning consumer products to market to realizing capital projects from conception through construction, she has an insatiable curiosity and the mettle to make the impossible possible.

Jennifer is currently Director/Arts at the Knight Foundation where she manages a portfolio of over $50M to arts and culture organizations in Miami, Philadelphia and Macon. Since joining Knight in 2022, Jennifer has led several initiatives including $75 million in grant making to support digital transformation in the arts, Knight New Work open call program and Catalyst Forum to convene the brightest minds in technology and the arts.

Prior to Knight, Jennifer founded SproutsIO Inc., a groundbreaking food technology company, earning recognition as a Wired Innovation Fellow, INK Fellow, and Cartier Women’s Initiative Finalist among other accolades. Trained as an architect at the University of Miami and Columbia University, she practiced architecture before conducting pioneering research at the MIT Media Lab, leading to the founding of SproutsIO Inc.

Jennifer has diverse experience, from working with large scale organizations like Arquitectonica Intl. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to being selected as a resident artist at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center. She has taught design and sustainability courses at Columbia University, CUNY, and Pratt Institute. Her work has been featured in prominent publications, including Wall Street Journal Magazine, Financial Times, Fast Company, Vogue, and Wired Magazine.