Jennifer Cloer

Jennifer Cloer currently serves as CEO of Story Changes Culture, a media platform and consulting practice she founded in 2016 that focuses on amplifying stories that transform culture and elevate leaders redefining technology's future. Her career spans over two decades of influential work in tech communications, most notably as a founding team member of the Linux Foundation, where she built the communications function from an individual role into a 30-person team spanning PR, social media, and content production. Her expertise in developer relations and open source communities has benefited major technology companies including Google, IBM, Intel, PayPal, and Puppet. As creator and executive producer of The Chasing Grace Project, a three-episode docuseries about women in tech that ran from 2017-2020, she has championed diversity in technology through storytelling. The project was screened globally, including at notable venues like SNL's studio at 30 Rock and Los Angeles' Dynasty Typewriter. Her current work includes co-hosting the Hyped podcast, which examines the impact of public relations and misinformation on society, while serving as a Women's Media Center SheSource Expert. Based in Portland, Oregon, she continues to work with leading technology organizations including Comcast NBCUniversal, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and the Linux Foundation, focusing on transformative storytelling and strategic communications. Her contributions to the tech industry have earned her recognition as one of the most influential women in open source by CIO.com and as one of the best PR professionals in tech by BusinessInsider.