Jenny Ho

      Jenny Ho was born in the North side of Chicago in 1983 to Chinese immigrants hailing from Toisan and Guangzhou. She completed her B.A. in International Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she was an active member of the Asian Pacific American Coalition. She co-directed two annual Unseen Unheard Conferences on campus, which brought together students, scholars, activists and artists from across the country to educate and engage students in the discussion of gender, identity and socio-economic issues within the Asian Pacific American community. Jenny also participated in study abroad programs in Hong Kong and Ireland.

     Following her undergraduate studies, Jenny completed a brief stint as a community organizer/ patient advocate for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). She then pursued her graduate studies at Cornell University’s Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA), where she studied International Development. Jenny’s work abroad includes internships at the CARE Egypt headquarters in Cairo, the Impulse NGO Network of Shillong, India, and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome. As a graduate student, Jenny also had the opportunity to assist Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research of Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School, on her ongoing study on union organizing campaigns, "The Changing Climate for Union Organizing at the Turn of the Millennium." Jenny is currently a researcher for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) headquarters in Washington, D.C. as well as a rank and file member of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild of the Communications Workers of America (CWA).