Jeni has worked in the health and fitness industry for 28 years. Jeni has operated as a functional movement specialist which has included sports trainer, personal fitness trainer and instructor, elementary and high school physical and health educator, which included teaching adapted P.E., dance and yoga, and women’s pelvic wellness instructor. As of May 2019 Jeni was asked to serve on the Data Safety and Monitoring Board of the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network (PFDN) supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health.

She was introduced to Renalis (formerly Women’s Health Foundation) in 2005 where she worked for twelve years where she taught their signature research study Total Control (a medically based pelvic wellness and fitness class), at Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women’s Hospital. Jeni was a contributor to the development and teaching of the Total Control Platinum study for seniors in 2008, and collaborated with her team to write and teach the Chicago Public Schools Below Your Belt adolescent pelvic health study in 2011, which was published in the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.

Jeni is the author of the new children’s pandemic book Superhero Smiles; Celebrating the Pandemic Heroes published by Eifrig Publishing (all proceeds benefit UNICEF COVID-19 Relief Fund) where she was featured on WGN. She is also the co-author of  Below Your Belt:  How to be Queen or Your Pelvic Region which received Gold Medalist Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, Gold Medalist Nautilus Book Award, Gold Medalist Next Generation Independent Publisher Award, Gold Medalist Independent Publisher Book Award, and Silver Medalist IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award. She was a guest on several radio interviews nationwide some including OM Times Radio:  The Inspired Parenting Radio Show, It’s Your Health 51% Show, Powered Up, Healthy Woman, Naturally Savvy Radio MD, and Health Radio. She also inspired the publication of Riding the Potty Train:  Better Bathroom Behaviors for Little Girls on the Go! 

Though Jeni has experienced many bumps throughout her life, she feels each one has been benevolent and led her to her next unexpected journey. She is on a new quest to help the underserved population of mothers with special needs children during and after pregnancy, as she completed in 2017 her pre/postnatal yoga certification through Amala, and recently completed her postpartum doula certification through DONA International. She earned her science degree in Kinesiology and is Healthy Moms Certified. Jeni recently relocated with her active family from Chicago to Bellevue, WA where they laugh often, explore and love to dream.