Jennie’s work intersects body and communication. She is part of the creative embodiment faculty at Haden Institute, Flat Rock, NC, where she received a certification in Jungian dreamwork. She facilitates workshops in movement-based expressive arts in her current hometown of Greenville, SC. She has been an associate of the Tamalpa Institute and its Life/Art Process since 2014 and a registered somatic movement educator (RSME) since 2015. 

As faculty in the English department at Clemson University, Clemson, SC retired (emerita), she taught composition, humanities, and literature courses, using the Tamalpa Life/Art Process (TLAP) to help students in all majors tap their own creative process. In addition to teaching composition and literature courses, Jennie developed these courses at Clemson: “Writing, Body, and Earth,” “The Role of Dance in Culture,” “Writing Architecture,” and “Writing the Occupational Narrative.”

Jennie’s MA in English is from Clemson University. Her BFA in dance is from Boston Conservatory. 

And Jennie has been a teaching artist (dance and folk arts) in primary and secondary schools for the Metropolitan Arts Council in Greenville, SC and the South Carolina Arts Commission, and a caller of contra dances for public community dances and private events like weddings. It’s all about participation and immediate experience.

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