Jennifer is Accelerating Appalachia’s former C.O.O. and now advisor to the program. Before her recent move to Michigan, she worked and lived in North Carolina as the owner of a natural products company and the former brand manager for the North Carolina Natural Products Association’s Blue Ridge Naturally program. She is an ecopsychologist and permaculturist with 15+ years experience in working to connect people to their place through community development, one-on-one advising, and small business consulting in rural WNC. She is also an artist and an herbalist by training and loves connecting with plants for healing.