Jennie is a daughter and a friend — born on Lenape land (New York City), she is a student of power, paradox, and pleasure. Jennie is exploring what it means to be in right relationship with ourselves, each other, and the natural world. She believes that radical redistribution of resources, heart-centered communication, and joy are preconditions for dismantling white supremacy and building a culture of repair. Jennie loves ripe fruit, the sun, being loud and quiet, and cooking for loved ones.
Jennie is currently the Director of Operations and Strategic Engagement for Liberation Ventures. LV supports the ecosystem of organizations working on truth, reconciliation, and reparations in order to build public will for a comprehensive, federal, financial and non-financial reparations program.
In 2016, Jennie launched a consultancy practice where she has worked with influential funders and social justice organizations generating and refining philanthropic practices that promote equity, efficacy, and empathy. Some of Jennie’s projects include philanthropic advising, communications, grants management, events, hiring and program evaluation. Her list of clients can be found here.
Jennie has a Master's of Public Policy from Mills College, where she focused on ways to disrupt and transform philanthropy. She is a student of generative somatics and participated in "Transformative Leaders in Philanthropy". In 2019, Jennie was selected for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy inaugural mentorship cohort, and was a 2019/2020 Harmony Initiative fellow with Justice Funders.
Since 2017, Jennie has released two publications – Completely and Without Pause and One Through Twelve – with 100% of proceeds to birthing justice organizations, Roots of Labor Birth Collective and Black Women Birthing Justice. In December 2019, she published a profile on The Weavers Fellowship in Inside Philanthropy.
Say hi - jenniegoldfarb@gmail.com
Thank you Akasha Rabut for the photo