Jennifer Cloer

Jennifer is the founder and CEO of Story Changes Culture, a media platform and consulting firm that amplifies stories about people and businesses that disrupt, transform and inspire. She has been recognized for her storytelling acumen by Business Insider, who ranked her among the best PR people in her industry and recently won the Gold Stevie Award for women supporting women for social change.

She is a writer and the creator and executive producer of the Chasing Grace Project, a three-episode docuseries dedicated to elevating women’s voices in business and advancing a constructive narrative about inclusivity. Her company hosts the community of women that emerged from the Project and publishes the Story Changes Culture monthly newsletter, hosts the Story Changes Culture Book Club and the Storytellers Retreat. She is a Women’s Media Center SheSource expert and co-host and co-producer of the Hyped podcast, how Public Relations Influences Everything.

Jennifer was on the founding team of the Linux Foundation, the industry’s leading technology consortium, where she focused on establishing the organization as the predominant thought leader on open source development and governance and garnered developer attention for open source projects and new technologies. Prior to the Linux Foundation, she worked at the VP level at two PR agencies and as a corporate PR manager at Tektronix.

She is based just outside Portland, Oregon and received her BA in Journalism from the University of Oregon.