Jen Christensen

A writer and producer with CNN.com, Christensen previously worked as an investigative producer/documentarian in CNN’s Special Investigations Unit, where she won the Peabody and DuPont awards, among other top prizes, as a producer for Christiane Amanpour’s God’s (Jewish) Warriors. She also produced the award-winning MLK’s Words That Changed a Nation; Black in America: Eyewitness to Murder; Obama Revealed; Sarah Palin Revealed; Christiane Amanpour’s Generation Islam, and several breaking-news documentaries.

Before joining CNN, Christensen ran investigative units at WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., and WTVQ-TV in Lexington, KY. While still in college, she ran the assignment desk and served as a line and field producer at WXIN-TV in Indianapolis.

Prior to journalism, Christensen worked on nuclear non-proliferation issues in London for NATO and worked at the Chicago’s Board of Elections. She is a co-author of chapters in two books: Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993 (Greenwood Press, 1993) and Women Confronting Retirement (Rutgers Press, 2003).

Christensen holds a bachelor’s degree in TV/Radio and politics from Butler University and also attended the London School of Economics, where she studied foreign policy and economics.