Jennifer Donahue
Jenn Donahue is a U.S. Naval Officer, leadership coach, engineer, and entrepreneur. As founder of the globally-recognized JL Donahue Engineering, Donahue has worked with clients including PG&E, Duke Energy, The Tennessee Valley Authority, and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Over the course of her career, Donahue has led operations around the globe—from building a bridge in an Iraqi war zone to constructing combat outposts in deserts filled with insurgents. Known as the “Earthquake Doc,” she successfully spearheaded earthquake and tsunami reconnaissance missions in Samoa and Japan, designed the seismic plans for a bridge over the Panama Canal, and has served as the seismology expert at five nuclear power plants. She has served on professional boards such as EERI (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute) and USGS (United States Geological Survey) and is a lecturer at UC Berkeley and UCLA. She earned her PhD and master’s degree at UC Berkeley after attending Texas A&M.
