Jennifer Wells, MSW, is a community organizer and social worker who is currently working as the Deputy Director of Black-Led Organizing at Community Change/Community Change Action. With an extensive background working in child welfare, juvenile justice, community services, program development, and fundraising, She brings a skilled and multi-layered lens to her social justice work. In 2018, she was named Social Worker of the Year by the West Virginia Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. She is also former Executive Director of Our Future West Virginia. She is an inspiring advocate for strengths-based inquiry and action and the catalyst for the Center for Resilient Communities’ co-created Stories of Resilience Listening Project. To learn more about Jennifer’s conceptualization of resilience, see her Ted Talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_wells_connection_forged_through_resilience