Cultivo Consulting in Sacramento and Los Angeles, California – Policy Consultants for Non-profit and Community Organizations. Promoting policy that is socially, economically and environmentally just.

Jennifer Hernandez

Jennifer Hernandez brings a diverse background of campaign management, lobbying and community organizing experience. Currently Jennifer is a Partner with Cultivo Consulting, a consulting firm started in 2008 aimed at helping nonprofits and community organizations participate in public policy shaping from the local to state levels. Prior to Cultivo Consulting, Jennifer was with the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF), where she coordinated efforts on Policy Development and implementation with the Poder Popular Program, a project funded by the California Endowment.

Prior to joining CRLAF, Jennifer served as the Deputy Executive Director of Communities United to Strengthen America a 501c4 non-profit organization that empowered middle-class voters and their families in 12 Congressional districts during the 2006 Congressional mid-term election cycle. Jennifer helped craft and administer Communities United's unique approach of fully integrating a Research, Communications and Field operations program to educate and mobilize voters.

In the 2004 Presidential Election cycle Jennifer worked with Voices for Working Families, the second largest 527 that cycle, which conducted voter education, registration, mobilization, and voter protection activities in communities of color in seven battleground states.

Prior to joining Voices for Working Families, Jennifer worked with the United Farm Workers Political Department in California where she coordinated the statewide driver's license field mobilization campaign and lobbying efforts. In addition to her efforts around driver's license reform, she also served as Program Manager for the UFW's Farm Worker Voter Project, a program geared at registering and mobilizing Latino voters in rural communities.

Jennifer received her Bachelor of Science degree in International Politics & Law, with a concentration on Latin America from Georgetown University in Washington, DC and completed a Masters in Public Policy from George Mason University in Virginia. Jennifer has also studied at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Currently, Jennifer serves as an appointed member to the City of Covina Housing and Community Development Authority, the Board of Directors of Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas, the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN) as well as the Stewardship Council of Roots of Change.