Jennifer Day, APR
Jennifer Day lives and breathes the Great Lakes. She serves as the Great Lakes Regional Coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where she oversees internal and external agency collaboration and partnerships, policy and planning on the Great Lakes through a team of 23 internal staff and external NOAA partners. Jennifer brings decades of state, federal and international government leadership experience to NOAA and the region having served as Director of Public Affairs for the International Joint Commission Great Lakes Office, and as U.S. Public Coordinator for the Lake Erie Lakewide Management and Action Plan and across all surface water issues for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
She began her career in client work for several public relations firms and worked as an exhibit science presenter at the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) where she demonstrated the principles of positive reinforcement by teaching rats how to play basketball. Jennifer earned her B.A. in public relations from Otterbein University, an M.A. in environmental policy from the University of Michigan, and researched overlapping collaborative arrangements in natural resource management toward her Phd at Michigan. She currently lives in the Huron River watershed of Michigan and loves sailing on her beautiful Great Lakes.