Co Executive Director. Do Gooder. Founder. Consultant. Creative.
Hello! Welcome. Thank you for stopping by.
I have quite the unexpected and unique journey. I have heard this, a lot.
I am based in San Francisco, California and am often in the Los Angeles area too. I am currently the Co Executive Director at an incredible health equity nonprofit, Safer Together. Safer Together truly is one-of-a-kind, literally. There is no other organization like it because it was started in response to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. I was brought on as a consultant to build their pandemic response program and operations from the ground up. A month later, I was asked to join the organization full time as their Director of Programs.
I have over fifteen years of experience and consulting in social impact; advocacy; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); business and people development; community building and community relations; education; nonprofit and private sectors; operations; the arts; innovative fashion; branding; marketing and communications. You name it, I’ve probably done it. I attribute this to my passion to fight the injustices me, my family, too many of my fellow community members faced growing up and continue to. I also attribute it to my constant curiosity to learn, to create my own path in order to do good my way, through founding a few social impact businesses while always simultaneously doing community-centered, social impact work with many nonprofits.
In addition to founding Jenny Ton Consulting, I was the founder, creative director, and marketing and communications lead for my prior two social enterprises, Retrofit Republic and ACMIST, where I excelled at wearing all hats. Founding these two companies allowed me to merge my passions for social and environmental justice and equity with art and fashion.
I am a longtime activist for the most marginalized communities (vulnerable women and girls, survivors of human trafficking and violence, im/migrants, students, youth, and emerging artists of color) and have proudly affected change through civic engagement and public policy. I have been the voice for these divested communities locally and nationally at the White House.
Also, I was the former director of student development at the world’s largest one-to-one educational model of schools as well as a programming and marketing consultant for Oakland Museum of California, Kearny Street Workshop, and Sol Sisters to name a few. I serve as a board of director for the latter two nonprofits.
I received a History of Art degree from the University of California, Berkeley, studied Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in a partnership abroad program through the University of California, Los Angeles, and International Politics and Dutch Art and Cultural Studies in The Netherlands and Belgium via UC Berkeley. I also received a business certification from City College of San Francisco.
I deeply love connecting and building community as well as satisfying my curiosity by trying new things and learning all that I can. I can easily be found reading several books concurrently (recommendations are welcome) and planning my next travels.
To see more of my experience, connect with me on LinkedIn.
