Jenna Isaacson Pfueller is a proud Midwesterner, handmade crafter, policy nerd, creative storyteller, visual communicator, people-connector, graphic designer, admitted thrift store addict, and license plate collector, now living in Portland, Maine.

A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, she worked in the news industry for 10 years, doing everything from writing obituaries to photographing a Superbowl. Her newspaper career included stints at the Salt Lake Tribune, St. Joseph News-Press, the Columbia Daily Tribune, and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Her Kickstarter project on American thrift culture, All Thrifty States, has been featured on The Washington Post's Insight blog, The Brian Lehrer Show, and Huffington Post, among others.

She worked as an assistant photo editor for AARP Media; served as a brand storyteller, designer, and digital marketer for Goodwill Northern New England; did design, marketing, website management, and content for designer Angela Adams, a luxury textile and furniture design studio; managed communications and marketing initiatives for CLYNK, a recycling redemption technology company based in Maine, served as the communications manager for Family Service of Rhode Island, a 130-year-old social service nonprofit, including its program AIDS Project RI and affiliate Lucy’s Hearth— working remotely.

Jenna now works as a limited-term civil service communicator and is passionate about policy, connecting like-minded people, and community development.

She fancies herself a decent cook, an okay mom, a subversive crafter, and a generally good human.