Jennifer Skene

I work in Product at Mixmax, where I was the first non-technical hire. I love to mentor and support the next generation of women and girls in science and tech.

Work

Mixmax — Director of Product & Partnerships, 2015-present

Inkling — Product Researcher, 2012-2015

Teaching

Visiting Assistant Professor, Mills College — Marine Biology, 2010

Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley — Communicating Ocean Sciences to Informal Audiences, 2010–2011

Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley — Taught undergraduate courses for 7 semesters, 2002–2007

National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellow, University of California, Berkeley — Designed curriculum and taught weekly classes on California biodiversity for middle and high school students, 2004–2006

Workshops & Mentoring

Mentor, Brown University Entrepreneurship Program, 2018-present

Workshop Leader, WE@Brown Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference — Design Thinking, 2018

Guest Lecturer, Colorado School of Mines — Design Thinking / Mapping the Routes of Science, 2016

Science Writing

Fresh Ink blog — Thoughts on ed tech, the internet of things, and corporate learning, for Inkling's blog 

KQED QUEST blog — Biweekly blog posts from 2010–2012, for San Francisco's NPR/PBS multi-platform science program

A Living Carbon Reservoir — Sequestering carbon in the sea

In the Garden of Good and Evil — Mushroom hunters can tell the difference 

Field Trip! — Middle schoolers learn about biodiversity in the fields of Richmond and beyond

Mind the Gap — Studies find continued disparity in university faculty tenure rates for men and women with families

A Nobel Tradition — A history of UC Berkeley’s laureates

Mighty Moss — Tracking the cultural conservation of traditional medicine

Education

PhD, University of California, Berkeley — Integrative Biology, 2009

ScB, Brown University — Biology, Honors, magna cum laude, 2000