Jennifer serves as The Wilderness Society's Montana Program Manager, based in the Northern Rockies office in Bozeman. She has primary responsibility for program work on the local Gallatin Range, where she is working to bring together diverse interests to arrive at a solution that protects the range’s extraordinary wilderness values while creating recreation solutions that address the needs of the growing communities surrounding the Gallatins. She also works in our climate program, which in the Northern Rockies focuses on bringing credible, plain-language information about impacts to everyday Montanans who are seeing changes to the lands, waters, and wildlife that they love. Jennifer also contributes to our efforts to realize true “adaptive management” on the region’s national forests in the face of climate change, as well as place-based campaigns in the Crown of the Continent.

Jennifer joined the The Wilderness Society staff in September 2012 after a decade at Wilburforce Foundation, most recently as Program Officer for Wilburforce’s Yellowstone to Yukon program. While at the foundation, she developed its landscape-scale grantmaking strategy for the 1,800-mile long Yellowstone to Yukon ecoregion. She directed a program of support that included both funding and capacity building resources for conservation advocacy, science research, communications, and organizational capacity. Her first job in conservation was with a regionally based advocacy organization focused on the conservation of native predator species in the Northern Rockies and Northern Plains.

She holds an M.A. in English literature from UNC-Chapel Hill, and a B.A. in English and theater from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Prior to conservation, she built her nonprofit and organizing experience in the higher education and social justice fields.

A Marine Corps kid growing up, Jennifer moved to Bozeman in 1998 for a year and has never left. The allure of the surrounding mountains and wilderness made it the first, best, and only hometown she's picked for herself, and she’s now lived here three times longer than anywhere else.

Jennifer and her husband, Tim Herzog, are raising an energetic, train-loving, three-year old – Robbie -- as well as the ageless Pippin, who adds 92 pounds of canine enthusiasm to the family. They enjoy southwest Montana’s local wildlands on foot, bike, and skis.