Jennifer Doran-Peña is Foster Your Future’s Chief Operating Officer and Board Treasurer. She brings deep experience with innovative program development, fundraising, community engagement, data tracking and impact measurement to this role.

Prior to joining Foster Your Future in May 2024, Jennifer worked for nearly two decades at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a nonprofit the helps people affected by humanitarian crisis. During her 19-year tenure with the organization, Jennifer held executive leadership roles, as well as management roles over a range of service areas, including community and economic development, resettlement, employment, behavioral health, early childhood, and Immigration. In 2016, Jennifer opened the IRC’s Kansas Office for Refugees and became its first Executive Director/State Refugee Coordinator. The Office served as a public-private partnership with the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, and in this capacity, she oversaw statewide refugee cash and medical assistance programs, and ensured distributed funds allocated to Kansas through grants and contracts to health care providers, nonprofits and faith-based organizations working with refugees and immigrants across Kansas.

Jennifer started her career as the Grant Coordinator for the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, now Visit Philadelphia. She coordinated all stages of the grant lifecycle, making grants and providing marketing technical assistance to cultural, historical and other organizations to promote themselves to leisure tourists and ultimately, boost the local economy.

Jennifer received her Master of Science degree in Anthropology and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College with a major in Anthropology.

Jennifer is a mom and is active with the PTO and volunteering at her son’s school. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, running and spending time outdoors.