Jenifer Strauss

Training Consultant and Speaker

With a warm and interactive style, Jenifer Strauss has been sharing her own unique blend of energetic presentations with over 300 audiences a year. As an environmental educator, Jenifer shared traditional stories to help her students understand how the earth works. As an elementary educator, Jenifer found storytelling to be a powerful tool to motivate and inspire her students to engage in speaking, writing and reading. And so in 1993, Jenifer combined her skills as a teacher and storyteller to offer dynamic traditional and personal story presentations, writing workshops, long-term residencies and keynote speeches. Jenifer's speaking style is energetic and thought-provoking…inviting and honest…heart-warming and lively!

Jenifer holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan, an elementary education degree from Western Michigan University, and a secondary education degree in Biology from Michigan State University. Her professional storytelling and speaking career began in 1993 and continues to flourish, including collaboration in a storytelling cooperative called Cygnus Storytelling: five professional storytellers who carefully and artfully blend their styles, experience, and abilities to offer unique and dynamic presentations, workshops and programs for all ages.

Some of Jenifer's recent keynote addresses:

Michigan Library Association Literature and the Child Conference, September 26, 2006, Lansing, Michigan.

13th Annual Recipient Rights Conference, The Road to Rights, October 11, 2006, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Fourteenth Annual Parenting Awareness Michigan Conferences, October 19, 2006, Marquette, Michigan, November 6, 2006, Lansing, Michigan. Sponsored by Prevention Network and Parenting Awareness Michigan.

Michigan Prevention Association Conference. November 3, 2006, Lansing, Michigan, sponsored by Prevention Network Michigan.