Jeni joined SeniorLAW Center in September 2006 as an Independence Foundation Fellow. Her fellowship project focused on assisting elderly tenants of public and private housing who faced eviction and/or unsafe condition. She now serves as Legal Advocate for Consumer and Tenants’ Rights, assisting Michele Cohen with the representation of elderly tenants and consumers, volunteer training and recruitment, and outreach and education in these areas. Her duties also include conducting initial client interviews and providing legal advice, information and referrals for the seniors who come to the office for walk-in intake. She also staffs the legal clinics at SeniorLAW Center’s neighborhood legal clinic sites at Haddington Senior Center. In 2006, Jeni earned her law degree from the City University of New York, the only law school in the nation with the mission of producing public interest attorneys. During law school, she interned at the Harlem Regional Office of the Attorney General and participated in her school’s Battered Women’s Rights Clinic. She is a 1998 graduate of The George Washington University.