Jennifer was born on the U.S. Army Presidio of San Francisco on March 29, 1970. She has lived in San Francisco and Tustin, California; Cheney, Washington; and Northern Virginia. She was co-director for FX Village Day School in Fairfax, Virginia.
After she received her Veterinary Tech license, she worked as a VT. During the Katrina flood crisis of 2005, she went to New Orleans to assist the lost animals. She was President-Elect of the Virginia Chapter of Veterinary Techs.
She died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism (blood clot that migrated to her lungs), on January 27, 2010 at her home in Manassas Park, VA. She was 39 years old.