Jenni was raised in a family business which is a biomedical testing lab in the buckeye state of Ohio. Jenni got her love of plants from her dad whose excitement for plants was contagious. She learned about Oregon from a Botany professor at University of Kentucky who spoke about the big trees in the rain forests of the PNW. She graduated from Oregon StateUniversity with a B.S. in Rangeland Management in the college of Agriculture. She owned and managed a wholesale plant nursery for 17 years in the Willamette Valley and has held outside positions in nursery management and propagation; plant and ecosystem id; range trend analyses; with experience in tissue culture, soil and water testing. Jenni has taught at CCC since 2005 in Plant Propagation, Plant ID, Nursery Management and CWE.