Jennifer Hahn, Principal:

Jennifer was tapped to play Little Orphan Annie at age 8 because her school didn't have the budget for a wig or a microphone and she didn't need either. This pragmatic bit of casting set a tone for the rest of her life. She is a leader in nonprofit communications including strategic planning, messaging, spokesperson and media training, capacity building for grantees and clients, as well as the management of media advocacy campaigns.

Inspired by the arts and committed to advancing public education, Jennifer started building a career in nonprofit communications at Thirteen/WNET, the nation's flagship public television station serving the New York area. She learned publicity and promotion old school, pitching broadcast premieres, cultural events and programs on everything from mating penguins to cut-throat NYC politics to live opera. When the 104^th Congress threatened to zero funding for public broadcasting, she got the taste for national media and advocacy campaigning and never looked back. She embraced Grrrl power in the mid-90s at the national headquarters of Girls Incorporated, inspiring girls – and herself – to become strong, smart and bold.

With the personal commitment to build and enable more effective communications across the spectrum of progressive social change, Jennifer joined Douglas Gould and Company in 1997, serving in multiple roles and becoming a partner in 2006. Since the very beginning she has crisscrossed the country and occasionally an ocean, always in minimum 3 inch heels, to fight passionately for education, children and families, human rights, women's health, international development, social and economic justice and more for nearly 100 clients.

Jennifer graduated cum laude from the Honor’s College at the University of Michigan and earned a Master's of Fine Arts from City University of New York/Brooklyn College in Theatre & Drama. She is an original founder of Basement Arts, a student run theatre company that is still going strong.

Her love and commitment for the work is surpassed only by her love and commitment to family and friends. She may go on about darling sons Gabriel and Nathan, but never when the clock is running. She vacillates between throwing hooks into the heavy bags and trying to 'find her breath" at yoga. She longs for more time to pursue her lifelong passion for the arts, film, museums and travel.