Position Title
Staff Advisor, All Health Professions
Jennie studied Intercultural Healing, an interdisciplinary degree in Anthropology, Public Health and Folklore at UNC Chapel Hill. Through this coursework, she explored how people make meaning of illness and healing in diverse cultures in her hometown and around the world. After graduation, she took her liberal arts education to practical application as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo, West Africa, where she worked towards the eradication of Guinea Worm disease. Add this intellectual and experiential background to 10 years of advising students and coordinating experiential education programs at UC Davis, and you can see why Jennie is excited to support your career and self-development. In her free time, Jennie can be found kayaking the rivers of the Central Valley. Jennie looks forward to finding the right balance of challenge and support for you and to assisting you when you need help navigating.
What advice do you have for pre-health aggies?
Your experiential education and lived experiences are an important part of who you are. As you gain these experiences, think about how want to talk about them. You might do your thinking by journaling, in conversation with a friend, or by knowing your family stories of resilience. I wish I had had this advice when I came back from the Peace Corps!
Looking forward to:
I look forward to connecting with you, calling out how special you are, and highlighting your individual strengths.
What events at Health Professions Advising are you excited about?
I am excited to experience the nation’s largest student-run conference, the Pre-Health Conference. Go Aggies! Way to outgrow the expected!
Advising philosophy:
Listening is part of advising. Storytelling is a practice that allows me to center and elevate student voices. I lead a First Year Aggie Connection, Your Story, Your Strengths: Intercultural Skills for Career and Life Success, that lets students name and claim their skills from lived experience. Chancellor May recognized my Spoken World Story Jams with the Staff Excellence Award for “promoting inclusiveness and a deep understanding and respect for the diversity of cultures, values and beliefs that make up our international university.” Don’t be surprised if I ask you to tell me your story and what it means to you!