Photo by Shomi Noise
Sarah Jenny is a community organizer, activist and visual artist working in new media and mixed media.
Sarah received recognition for her first website, a young women’s online resource center, in Teen Magazine (1997) after teaching herself to develop websites at age 12. From 1997 to 2004 she designed and produced one of the longest running webcam sites on the internet. Sarah has operated numerous blogs, web portals, community sites, and subsidiary projects from 1995 to present.
She received a BA from Hampshire College in visual art and cultural studies in 2005. Sarah is a co-founder and community organizer with SWOP-NYC and served as the New Media Director of $pread Magazine from 2006 to 2010. She is currently a masters candidate in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
In her free she enjoys organizing for social justice, pre-war architecture, reading non-fiction and doting on her cats (she has two). She resides in Brooklyn, NY.