Jen

Jen is the president for the Bush Foundation. She provides overall strategic direction and leadership for Bush and ensures that board and staff are aligned and functioning well together. Jen joined the Foundation in 2012. Her experiences include serving as chief of staff and vice president of strategy for the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, where she led the creation of GiveMN and Give to the Max Day. Jen was also a consultant with McKinsey and Company and directed the Itasca Project, a CEO-led regional civic initiative in the Twin Cities. She teaches a philanthropy 101 class for Minnesota Council on Foundations and is faculty for the New Foundation Executive programming for the Council on Foundations. Jen currently serves on the boards of Council on Foundations and GroundBreak Coalition. She has been honored as a “40 Under 40” leader by the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Business Journal, as one of the “100 Minnesotans You Should Know” by Twin Cities Business Magazine, and as a NextGen Fellow by Independent Sector. Jen has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago.