Jennifer Hollett

Topics

Presentations

Media revolution/Evolution
Are TV sets and newspapers becoming artifacts? Hollett explains how the Internet presents both a challenge and an opportunity to traditional media, as citizens view and share content in new ways.

Web 3.0
Web 2.0 marked the explosion of collaboration and community, but what's next? Web 3.0 could know more about you than your partner does. Hollett takes a look at the semantic web.

Social Justice: Getting Canada's Youth Involved
In a multi-media presentation, Hollett talks about her volunteer work in Africa and illustrates why youth involvement is so critical in finding lasting solutions.

Pop Culture With Bite, Why Entertainment Matters
Hollett shares her experience engaging the TV generation in the social issues of today to explain why celebrity culture has merit.

Summary Profile

Energetic and engaging, sassy and smart, Jennifer Hollett is a broadcaster who isn't afraid to turn up the volume.

Jennifer Hollett is an award winning cross-platform, cross-continent journalist. Her work has taken her around the world, winning awards for a documentary on youth in Afghanistan and a report on Israeli conscientious objectors. Jenn has over a decade of experience in television, interviewing hundreds of big names - including rock stars, prime ministers and royalty.

Most people know her as Jenn, the redhead chick from MuchMusic. While at Much, Jenn interviewed Coldplay, Beyoncé, and Gwen Stefani, as well as Canadian Prime Ministers Stephen Harper and Paul Martin. In 2002, Jenn traveled to war-torn Kabul to host the award winning "A MuchMusic Special: Afghanistan." She also reported from Live 8 in London, and covered the tsunami in South Asia.

In digital media, she had managed and marketed websites for Celine Dion and Sony Music, and recently developed content and social media strategy for the international development organization Plan and CBC NN's prime time program Connect. A digital and social media maven, Jenn has contributed a variety of content to numerous news websites, and was a national digital media columnist for CBC News. During Toronto's G20 Summit, Jenn hosted CBC's G20: Street Level blog, which won Best Community Feature at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. While at CBC News, Jenn also covered social media's role in international stories, including the earthquake in Haiti and the uprisings in Egypt and Libya.

Social issues are extremely important to Jenn. As founder of YouthCARE, she created a youth engagement program at CARE Canada. In 2007 and 2008, Jenn worked with jhr (Journalists for Human Rights) in Freetown, Sierra Leone where she trained reporters in war-torn newsrooms. Jenn was recently recognized by Amnesty International Canada with a 2009 Media Award for her CBC Radio story on Israeli conscientious objectors. She is also the moderator for the annual G(irls) 20 Summit.

Jenn has her Bachelor of Arts, With Distinction in Journalism and Communications from Concordia University in Montreal. At present, she is attending Harvard University for a Master in Public Administration, which she likes to call "a degree in creating a better world."

Client Testimonials:

“The event organizers and performers, as well as the diverse audience, were blown away by her incendiary energy, sharp wit and engaging, approachable manner. Jenn's presence focused and balanced the show, and her bubbly, yet intelligent personality shone throughout. I would be happy to have Jenn speak at any future event!”

World Urban Forum & Youth Organizing Committee

"Jenn’s keynote address connected with everyone present and, what is more, she made it seem effortless. Everyone was impressed at how approachable and honest Jenn was and with how she was able to engage a diverse crowd with her savvy understanding of culture, her straight-from-the-hip answers to questions and her honest, searching and surprisingly practical talk about children and youth in Africa. You could easily see when she spoke the qualities that made her the smartest and coolest VJ MuchMusic's ever had."

Graeme Burk, Serve!