Jen Soriano

CMJ Associate Director Jen Soriano, 31, is a communications strategist and trainer who has spent the last five years transforming CMJ’s vision into impactful programs that build the communications power of the youth rights and racial justice movement.

Originally from Chicago, Jen has 15 years of experience as a cultural worker, activist and writer.  Her activist background includes corporate accountability and legislative campaigns with the Center for Responsible Genetics, living wage organizing with the “We Can’t Eat Prestige” campaign at Harvard University, and international human rights work with the Bay-Area based Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines.

As a journalist Jen has worked with Mother Jones magazine, Free Speech Radio News, the Center for Investigative Reporting and Free Speech TV.  Her stories have appeared in Left Turn Magazine, Shewire.com, Mother Jones, Filipinas Magazine, and The Christian Science Monitor.  

Jen is also a seasoned musician who knows Fela got it right when he said music is the weapon.  She has studied cultural worker strategies of the Philippine Movement for National Democracy, and apples them to music projects that support anti-imperialist solidarity work and racial justice organizing in the Bay Area.

Jen graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in History and Science from Harvard University in 1998.