Student leader and advocate for applied emotional intelligence in the arts helps guide nonprofit as it provides STEAM focused scholarships and mentoring
Aspire2STEAM announced today that Jena Nahnsen, music educator, emotional intelligence in the Arts advocate and graduate student in clarinet performance at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM), has joined their advisory team. “Jena was instrumental in our recent decision to expand our scholarship program to underserved and often overlooked young women and girls pursuing STEAM-related careers, as well as helping us with our name change,” said Cheryl O’Donoghue, Aspire2STEAM CEO and Co-Founder. “Applying the arts to help power STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics—and other academic and life pursuits, as well as to strengthen emotional intelligence, is something
Jena knows well and practices daily.”