Jennifer James

Jennifer James is the founder of Mom Bloggers for Social Good, a global coalition of mothers who use social media and blogging for good. An early social media adopter, she was recently named a Fast Company Most Generous Social Media Maven. Her work has been featured by Forbes, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Scientific American, and Fast Company. Named a top Woman Changing the World by SheKnows.com as well as a Blogger Out to Change the World by Water for People, James is a recipient of a National Press Foundation Global Vaccines Press Fellowship and has had her work excerpted on the White House blog. James currently writes for the Gates Foundation’s Impatient Optimists, Huffington Post, and Babble, and has had bylines at USAID, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Healthy Newborn Network, Frontline Health Workers, ONE, and (RED).

Jennifer has traveled to Ethiopia with Save the Children to document frontline health workers and to Kenya as a member of the ONE Moms Advisory Council. In 2012, James covered Rio + 20 in Brazil, TEDxChange in Berlin, and the Family Planning Summit in London and also covered infectious diseases in Zambia as an International Reporting Project Fellow.