Jenn Sramek

Jenn deeply understands the landscape in which our nonprofit clients function, and brings a holistic and problem-solving approach to her strategic work. In her role as Director of Operations at CivicActions, Jenn serves as a mentor and advisor to our Project Management Group, a communications facilitator, and a stand for the entire operation functioning within our company's core values. To our clients, she brings a fierce dedication to the concept that you deserve the very best from our team and a heartfelt desire to move your mission forward.

She comes from a background of nonprofit work from her college years operating a community garden with the local Boys and Girls Club and Directing the Ropes Course for the Boy Scouts at Forest Lawn Scout Reservation, to later working as an Agro-Forestry volunteer for the U.S. Peace Corps in Chad, Central Africa, and eventually to working as a Program Director and Development Director in several different nonprofit organizations. Her technical proclivity and fascination with the way that the web was changing and enriching everyday interactions eventually drew her to work with nonprofits in technology where she has managed numerous technical website implementation projects.

Before working with CivicActions, Jenn was the Program Manager for the Eco-Center at Heron's Head Park, where she worked with local youth and community members to design an off-grid environmental education center and to get the development permitted and approved. The project recently won the 2010 EPA National Environmental Justice Achievement Award for Community Collaboration. Related to this project, she was a featured speaker at the Conference of the North American Association of Environmental Educators (NAAEE) on the topic of increasing diversity in Environmental Education. She holds a B.A. in Literature with an emphasis in Creative Writing from UC Santa Barabara and is fluent in French and Chadian Arabic.

Jenn currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors of the Haight Ashbury Food Program, a non-profit emergency food pantry in San Francisco.