JEN JAYNES - Communications Chair / Teacher

Jen has been a member of TBC since 2017, and enjoys helping host TBC events via Zoom, editing the weekly e-newsletters, and keeping the website up to date! In addition to her TBC offerings, she is also the Associate Artistic Director of MacGuffin Theatre & Film Company, where she teaches theatre to ages 4-18 and directs productions among many other tasks.

She became a member of the Sangha when she first walked through the doors in November of 2017, and Sangha member Marjon van Kempen offered her very own socks to Jen to wear in the center (which had cold floors that time of year!). Through this act of kindness, Jen sensed that TBC was the kind of community from which she wanted to learn. Two years later, in November of 2019, she had the incredible opportunity to join Lama Losang Samten and others on a pilgrimage to Northern India to visit the Buddhist Holy Sites and have a short but incredible teaching session from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. 

Her current dharma practices and interests are in Dream Yoga, integrating Dharma practice into the every day, and learning to read and write Tibetan (shameless plug for the Tibetan Language Institute!). She is grateful to Lama Losang Samten, Lama Lena, Tenzin Wangyal, Ven. Amy Miller, and all the members of the TBC Sangha for their teachings.

She lives in the Manayunk area of Philadelphia with her husband Brandon Everett, step-son Oliver, 20+ guppies, two parakeets, a one-eyed cat.