Jeni Krencicki graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley, where she studied Political Science and Conservation and Resource Studies. Her political experience includes working as an in-house consultant to Environment2004, working to coordinate the national environmental outreach for Gore 2000, serving as a Bessette-Kennedy Fellow in Public Policy with the California Democratic Party, assisting on the planning committee of Inspiring America, and working as a Conservation Organizer with the Sierra Club. She has been identified as an "Emerging Progressive Leader" by Campaign for America's Future, and she currently serves as a Fellow with Redefining Progress and as an Associate with the Commonweal Institute. She is also the Founder and Chairperson of Deep Roots Nepal.

Jeni recently completed her Master's degree in Environmental Science at Yale University, where she co-created and co-taught the school's first seminar addressing the environmental impacts of war and militarization. She also worked closely with a classmate on the "Progressive Synergy Project," an academic meta-analysis of the progressive movement's failure to adapt to changing social and political circumstances.

Jeni is currently working with The Climate Project as a volunteer presenter of Al Gore's global warming slide show and serves as a Gates Public Interest Law Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law.