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Jenna Jaehnig

Jenna Jaehnig

Santa Clara, CA, USA

Recent Graduate | Interested in Legal, Research & Innovation-Focused Roles

Barista at Lookout Coffee

Open to Remote
Open to Relocation
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    Background

    Hello 👋 I’m interested in opportunities at the intersection of law, business, and the innovation economy—especially roles supporting startups, venture capital, and emerging companies. I’m particularly drawn to detail-oriented, behind-the-scenes work and am excited to continue developing my analytical, research, and writing skills.


    Job experience

    • July 2025 - present
      Barista
      Lookout Coffee
      Campbell, CA, USA

      - Working collaboratively and communicating effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment while maintaining a positive attitude and personable demeanor to satisfy customers and deliver specialty coffee
      - Establishing a welcoming environment with customers through prompt and patient communication

    • January 2025 - May 2025
      Legal Navigator Volunteer
      Michigan Advocacy Program
      Ann Arbor, MI, USA

      - Worked with individual clients to help gather the necessary documents for criminal record expungement
      - Called police stations to understand availability, cost, and documents required for fingerprinting services
      - Guided clients in the obtainment of certified records and letters of support and forwarded all materials to ensure courts have all necessary materials for processing criminal expungement

    • January 2023 - May 2025
      Instructional Aide
      University of Michigan - College of Engineering
      Ann Arbor, MI, USA

      - Developed course materials for 700+ students on advanced full-stack topics like search engines, dynamic pages, and distributed systems using SQL, React, AWS, REST APIs, Map-Reduce frameworks, and Flask
      - Led weekly lab sessions for 30+ students and conducted office hours appointments to review course material, discuss project pitfalls, and facilitate integration of debugging and code-testing techniques
      - Designed (writing, testing, and revising) exam questions for midterms and finals, and grading exams
      - Fostered an inclusive, safe, and collaborative environment to enrich student learning and supplied guidance about the computer science program with a team of students and course faculty

    • August 2021 - May 2025
      Arts Writer
      The Michigan Daily
      Ann Arbor, MI

      - Wrote weekly creative articles critiquing current TV shows and synthesizing common themes in television and media to write long-form notebooks read by 100+ people in the local Ann Arbor area
      - Commented on societal themes as portrayed through various forms of media and analyzed relationships between digital media and lived reality to better understand the effects of online influences in society


    Education

    • University of Michigan - College of Engineering
      Bachelor of Science Engineering
      2021 - 2025
      Computer Science BSE
    • University of Michigan - College of LSA
      Bachelor of Science
      2021 - 2025
      Sociology (Law, Justice, and Social Change) BS