Jennifer Shoemaker
National Geographic Society
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Jen Shoemaker is the Director of Missions Media at the National Geographic Society. She holds an MFA from Montana State University in Science and Natural History Filmmaking.
Jen was a media producer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and prior to that was a ranger-naturalist for twelve years in National Parks including Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Death Valley.
As a filmmaker, she has worked in tea fields in Kenya, out of helicopters over Ireland, from deep sea submersibles, and atop the tallest mountain on Earth.