Jennifer Harris has come to believe that all writing is an “autobiography of the imagination.” She began writing her autobiography in the eighties in a pink studded journal at the age of eight and has e’er since employed the craft of imagination through print in academia, in the nonprofit sector, in health sciences, and through creative writing.
A graduate of University of Chicago’s Master of the Arts Program in the Humanities and UC Davis’s undergraduate program in English and Creative Writing, Jennifer has spent over a decade fine-tuning the art that inspired her at such a young age. She has built a career imposing creative thinking and writing techniques to the fields of education, arts and culture, and philanthropy. Most recently, she used these talents to translate highly complex subject matters like genomic medicine and stem cell research in an effort to inspire private support. She has also spent over six years refining the strategies used to market and sell health care by identifying and voicing patient stories.
Thinking in “story” is a way of life for Jennifer. She spends her free-time writing and reading, exercising and hiking, and captures “stories” in everything she sees along the way. She loves to write her annual “holiday letter”—a practice she oddly inherited from her scientist father—but one she initiated on her own college. She hopes to continue to build a business that fuses her personal and professional ethos—an ethos centered on the power of stories, that stories can: serve personal growth and healing, develop organizations and business, and preserve communities and histories.
