Jenna Courtney

Jenna Courtney joined TXPOST in 2019, bringing more than a decade of policy making and advocacy experience from her time in and around the Texas Legislature. She focuses on the full integration of strategic objectives across program areas in order to maximize organizational effort and impact. Through her work, she seeks policy solutions and strives to develop diverse champions to drive progress and change in complex systems. She has extensive experience developing and managing nuanced and multi-faceted issue management campaigns that bridge media, government, and public relations to provide unified and targeted messages to engage stakeholders and influence decision makers.

Under her leadership, TXPOST has expanded its suite of services and supports, grown its staff, developed deeper and more extensive relationships across Texas, and applied metrics to measure success against organizational goals and objectives.

Prior to joining TXPOST, Jenna worked for a boutique public affairs firm in Austin, Imperium Public Affairs (IPA), where she provided turnkey services to the firm’s diverse clientele. She oversaw the drafting and implementation of advocacy strategies around a suite of individualized public policy solutions in a number of sectors, including public education, municipal governance, health care, transportation, energy, and the environment. Jenna’s advocacy and strategic guidance was instrumental in passing revolutionary legislation that enabled the first-ever widespread analysis of afterschool programs—legislation that is becoming a model for afterschool education across the nation.