Jen’s book, SHE THE PEOPLE, published in 2019, is an illustrated history of women’s citizenship in the US from 1776 to now. It has been used in middle, high school, and college classrooms and was challenged in Florida, a real badge of honor.

She has written several published essays about women and citizenship including a New York Times’ piece about Katy Perry’s positive influence on her daughter, a personal essay for Rebecca Walker’s Huffington Post blog about getting pregnant out of wedlock, and several pieces about the 2016 election for Dame magazine.

For many years, she wrote digests of economic papers for the National Bureau of Economic Research, some of which were co-published in Forbes. This earned her a listing as a contributor to the World Economic Forum, which she finds amusing and amazing.

Since 2008, she has run the largest Equal Rights Amendment page on Facebook. It has over 50,000 members and was a source of lively debate and support in the years leading up to the final ratifying vote in Virginia in 2018.

In 2012, she launched #UseThe19th, a coordinated tweet-blast protesting the rolling back of reproductive rights around the country. Dozens of prominent women sent tweets at the same time calling out the GOP and encouraging women to vote. By a helpful coincidence, the launch day ended up falling just two days after Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut, helping to make the hashtag a trending topic. The #UseThe19th campaign was covered in the Atlantic, and referenced by Joan Walsh on MSNBC. The hashtag was used for many years after by the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women.

She was a frequent on-screen contributor on the late, lamented Greater Boston, the flagship local news show on WGBH television. Topics included the #MeToo movement, the 2020 presidential election, and Marie Kondo’s cleaning advice.

From 2017 to 2022, she was the communications director for A is For, an abortion rights organization founded by Martha Plimpton and other artists.

During the COVID lockdown, she started a daily Substack, Dispatches from a Porch Swing, which she is still writing to this day.

In her younger life, Jen spent several years in New York City as a stand-up comedian trying to make drunk people from New Jersey laugh at jokes about foreign policy and dating. Sometimes it worked.

For many years, Jen lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her kid and the occasional unwelcome mouse. She is now a nomadic empty nester still deciding where to settle next.