About Me
I’m Jenn Schindel, PhD—a strategic advisor, equity-centered communications consultant, and leadership coach partnering with mission-driven leaders advancing health equity, community transformation, and systems change.
I Am a Catalyst
For more than 20 years, I’ve worked at the intersection of strategy, communications, and relationship-building—helping leaders clarify vision, align partners, and move bold ideas into action. Leveraging deep relationships and a unique ability to traverse both the forest and the trees, I partner with leaders and teams to bridge siloes and catalyze intention into action. My work accelerates health equity, community transformation, and systems change—so that organizations don’t just articulate values but operationalize them in ways that matter.
I Am a Strategist
A systems thinker with more than 20 years of experience across health, education, and the social impact sector, I design equity-centered strategies, partnerships, and communications that strengthen organizations from the inside out. I’ve served in senior leadership roles advising executive leaders, developed strategic communications platforms, led cross-functional teams, designed funder engagement strategy, and built new business and client partnership partnerships. I am a thought partner and connector who successfully integrates strategy, narrative, and partnerships that actualize purpose, build trust, and transform complex goals into actionable pathways for impact.
I Am a Storyteller
I believe narrative is one of our most powerful tools for transformation. I integrate a PhD from Stanford University in Linguistic Anthropology & Education, a BA in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley, deep experience in applied ethnography, linguistic research, narrative strategy, and community organizing, along with a lifelong passion for writing to mobilize the power of narrative change. I help organizations, collectives, and movement leaders craft narrative strategy and platforms that move the needle toward collective systemic change.
I Am UnBecoming
My framework of UnBecoming is not abstract, it is something I embody in all that I do. I am committed to work that is antiracist, abolitionist, decolonizing, and stewards a new regenerative economy through the transformation of our organizational practices, our narrative practices, our relationships, and how we show up in collective.