Jennifer Cloer

Jennifer is the founder and CEO of Story Changes Culture Media & Consulting. She has been recognized for her storytelling acumen by BusinessInsider, who ranked her among the best PR people in tech and by CIO.com, which identified her as one of the most influential women in open source. 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 garnering developer attention for open source projects and new technologies. She started the communications function at the Foundation as an individual contributor and grew it to a 30-person team of PR, social media and content production professionals. Prior to the Linux Foundation, Jennifer worked at the Director and VP levels at agencies focused on VC-funded startups and developer communities. Jennifer is also the creator and executive producer of the Chasing Grace Project, a three-episode docuseries exclusively dedicated to elevating women’s voices and advancing a constructive narrative about inclusivity. She is a Women’s Media Center SheSource expert and co-host of the Hyped podcast. She is regularly quoted in publications such as Forbes, TechCrunch, BusinessInsider, TechTarget and more. She is based in Portland, Oregon.