A visionary leader dedicated to helping families navigate our
media-saturated world with confidence.
Jennifer is dedicated to equipping pre-teens, teens, and parents with the skills they need to build healthy digital habits. Drawing on over two decades of expertise, including leading a trailblazing nonprofit that reached more than 10,000 youth, Jennifer has long been working to improve teen mental health by fostering critical thinking about media. She’s continuing that work with the launch of the Social Media Driver’s License and Ready Set Screen.
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10,000+ youth
gained critical-thinking skills around media from About-Face’s media literacy programs
92% of youth
in About-Face’s programs experienced a long-term improvement in their self-esteem
Meet Jennifer
A tireless advocate for helping teens become smart consumers of media of all kinds, Jennifer recently reached the 20-year mark of working full-time in media literacy education, drawing on a passion for making girls and women aware of how media impacts them, which started in her college years at University of Michigan.
Since 2001, Jennifer helped teens question media and take their own action through her work as executive director of About-Face in San Francisco. She transformed it from an all-volunteer activist group into a first-of-its-kind nonprofit, which helped more than 10,000 teens question their media and understand how it and advertising sells them much more than products.
Jennifer recently led the organization through another transformation, bringing media literacy and more to parents, kids, and teens, through a nationally available program, the Social Media Driver’s License.
“The teen mental health crisis ends where empowerment begins.”
Jennifer L. Berger, Youth Media Literacy Expert &
Inventor of the Social Media Driver’s License
Areas of Expertise
- Empowering teens through media awareness
- Online safety for kids without fear
- Digital wellness habits for a healthier online life
- Social media’s role in the teen mental health crisis
- Ending the teen mental health crisis using media literacy
- The impact of advertising on kids and teens
Jennifer L. Berger 