Everything you need to book Jenny for interviews, speaking engagements, and collaborations.

Work
Writer, editor, and podcast producer. Criticism on biography, memory, and place.
Roles
Producer, BIO Podcast · Reader, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize · Founder, Skoogfit
Also
21 years training women through pregnancy, postpartum, cancer recovery, perimenopause & menopause
Education
MA Biography & Memoir, CUNY Graduate Center · BA English/Creative Writing & Black Studies, City College
Recognition
Emmy nomination · Dean's Merit Scholar · Wilfred A. Cartey Award for excellence in Black Studies
Audio
35,000+ downloads · The Silence Between Hello
Current
Ambassador, Livelong Women's Health Summit (2026)
Location
New York City metro area
NPR NationalLiving Better Series · March 2026
Why the ‘Mad Scramble’ to Fill Hormone Therapy Prescriptions for Menopause
Reported by Allison Aubrey · Featured as opening voice
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Dassel-Cokato Enterprise/Dispatch · July 2025
Leaving Laestadianism, Finding Her Voice: A Daughter’s Journey Through Love and Loss
Reported by Tamara Horton
Read the story
Grief & Happiness Podcast · August 2025
She Saved 30 Minutes of Her Mom’s Voice
With Emily Threatt
Listen here
Elektra Health · April 2026
A Personal Trainer’s Journey to Find the Right Hormone Therapy Regimen & Reclaim Movement in Menopause
Featured during her tenure as Elektra Health Menopause Ambassador
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COZI TV · 2012–2013
Pushing It
Emmy-nominated starring role & co-producer · Reality series documenting her training practice · Additional on-camera work: NBC's New York Live, BusinessWeek TV, TaxiTV, BBC Radio
Books, biography & criticism
How a life gets written — and who gets one Public memory and place Oral history and collective memoir Audio storytelling & memoir Ethics in intimate storytelling
Faith, family & leaving
Religious trauma & family healing Post-fundamentalist identity & recovery Scandinavian-American religious communities
Women's health
Strength training through menopause Pre/postnatal fitness Exercise during & after cancer treatment Perimenopause in the workplace Women's health across the lifespan Reproductive justice & embodied knowledge
Television
Emmy-nominated on-camera experience
Radio & podcast
Experienced producer and guest
Print & digital
Expert source and essayist
Speaking
Literary events, health summits, corporate events, conferences, workshops
Virtual events
Webinars, online panels, remote interviews
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Jenny Skoog Mondesir is a writer, editor, and podcast producer. She produces BIO Podcast for the Biographers International Organization, reads first novels for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, and writes criticism on biography, memory, and place. She holds an MA in Biography and Memoir from the CUNY Graduate Center. She is also a women's health expert who has trained women in New York City for twenty-one years, and an Emmy-nominated television personality.

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Jenny Skoog Mondesir is a writer, editor, and podcast producer whose work is about what people bury — in families, in archives, and in the stories cities tell about themselves.

She produces BIO Podcast for the Biographers International Organization, where she has published more than 100 episodes with Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award finalists, and bestselling biographers, including the documentary season Four Paths, One Impossible Dream. She reads submitted literary fiction for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, has edited two literary novels — one through publication — and co-founded LIV Literary Journal. Her criticism has appeared in Australian Policy and History and in her newsletter, Things I Meant to Tell You.

She created the audio memoir The Silence Between Hello, which launched independently to 27,000 downloads in its first week. She is at work on two books: an oral history of women who left the fundamentalist religion she was raised in, and a reported memoir about the year she spent in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the centennial of the 1921 Race Massacre.

The other half of her work is women's health. Since 2005 she has trained women in New York City through pregnancy, postpartum, cancer treatment and recovery, perimenopause, and menopause. She was the opening voice in NPR's Living Better series on hormone therapy access, served as a Menopause Ambassador for Elektra Health, and is an Ambassador for the 2026 Livelong Women's Health Summit. She starred in and co-produced COZI TV's Pushing It, earning a New York Emmy nomination.

She holds an MA in Biography and Memoir from the CUNY Graduate Center and a BA in English and Black Studies from City College, where she graduated summa cum laude. She lives in the New York City area.

Professional USB microphone (Audio-Technica AT2005-USB)
Reliable high-speed internet · Quiet, well-lit home studio
Available most weekday afternoons · Eastern time zone
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