Jenny has been working with the Center for Community Health Development (CCHD) for three years as a graduate research assistant. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and recently obtained a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a concentration in Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences from Texas A&M University. She is continuing her studies and is now a second-year Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student at Texas A&M. She has 3 years of experience working at a Health Plan in California and her current wok at CCHD entails collaborating with a team in East Texas to establish a Community Health Resource Center in Trinity County, TX.

Her interests include rural health and oral health, and she aims to develop a CHW training curriculum in the future pertaining to oral health as part of her dissertation work.