Jen Coleman
Outreach Director
Outreach Director
Jen joined OEC January 2009 after ten years in communications with the national nonprofit
Environmental Defense Fund, headquartered in New York City. There, she helped EDF’s
economists, scientists and attorneys find the words to reach diverse audiences
and launched a nation-wide internal communications protocol. Before heeding the
call of nonprofit work, Jen worked as a theater stage electrician, school bus
driver, tutor, poet and college English composition teacher. Jen attended
Beloit College and earned an MFA in creative writing from
George
Mason University.

