Jennifer Christensen
Former Program Producer, Utah CaresJennifer Steele Christensen produces Utah Cares for Utah Public Radio. A longtime journalist-turned-social-worker, she has written for newspapers and magazines throughout Utah, Las Vegas and Arizona, her work earning seven Utah Press Association awards. Jennifer has a master’s degree in social work from Utah State University and loves helping Utah’s nonprofit voices share their stories. She is the busy mother of five children.
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Serving Utah’s Children in Foster Care by Finding, Educating, and Supporting Families to Care for Children of All AgesAfter five years of marriage,…
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Helping Those Who Need It Most and Celebrating Cultural Diversity Providing critical social services to Middle Eastern refugees who have fled their…
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Granting Wishes to Cache Valley Adults Who Are Facing Terminal Illness Modeled after the Make-A-Wish foundation, One Wish, Inc. was established in 2011 to…
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Volunteers Building Hope by Building Homes Habitat for Humanity of Utah County provides “a hand up” for families in need of affordable housing. Allison…
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Leading the Nation in Addressing Child Abuse...”Where Small Voices Can Be Heard”The Friends of the Salt Lake County Children’s Justice Center plays a…
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Supporting Cache Cadets in their Civil Air Patrol ServiceThe Friends of Cache Cadets supports the Cache Valley Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol in funding…
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Developing Service-Learning and Leadership Opportunities to Help Faculty and Students Change the WorldThe Thayne Center for Service & Learning at Salt…
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Empowering Youth through MultimediaSpy Hop Productions empowers youth through multimedia, helping teenagers in metro Salt Lake City express themselves,…
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Love of Piano in Our WorldFourteen year-old Olivia Tedder is the beneficiary of a piano donated to her family by the Mundi Project. Program founder Hana…
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Utah’s Voice on Mental IllnessAfter learning of her son’s diagnosis with a mental illness, Tonya Edvalson found NAMI Utah on a Google search. Having…