John Whittier Ferguson, colleague

Jen was one of the very most accomplished and humane students ever to come through the English and Education program here—brilliant and engaged and beloved by those who worked with her. And she continued to sit in on and be a part of the work of others in the E&E cohort who came after her, even as she was increasingly involved with so many new students at St. Louis University. She was a star, but a star who cultivated and celebrated the shining of others, not one caught only in her own bright light. I always found her a delight to talk with—warm and compassionate and ready to remind me, remind all of us, why teaching and learning and being part of a community mattered so much.

--John Whittier-Ferguson, Professor of English, University of Michigan