She has spent the past two decades working in numerous Jewish and international NGOs, including Digital Divide Data, NYU, and American Jewish World Service — running major gifts and donor engagement teams, launching a young professional fundraising program, and staffing many service trips for young adults and synagogues.
She most recently served for more than eight years as the senior vice president and chief development officer at Americares, a health-focused relief and development organization that serves individuals and communities affected by poverty or disaster with life-changing medicine and health programs. Her professional passions include international development, human rights, and creative approaches to resource development.
A certified professional co-active coach, she earned both an M.A. in Jewish Studies and an M.P.A. in Nonprofit Management from New York University, where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow.
Having grown up in Texas and Arizona, Jenny has traveled extensively and spent time volunteering, living, and working abroad. In Jerusalem she worked for HUC-JIR as a grant writer, and she volunteered in Izmir, Turkey, with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
She lives in Fairfield, Connecticut, with her husband, Rabbi Evan Schultz, who serves as senior rabbi at Congregation B’nai Israel in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The couple has three active boys.