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About Jenn DuBois

Description An attractive woman in her early 40s, Jennifer Grace DuBios, Ph.D. has shoulder-length reddish-brown hair with two blonde streaks. She has hazel eyes. She tends to wear clothing in Bohemian style, and prefers long, flowing skirts and Birkenstock sandals. Jenn is an avid cyclist, enjoys kayaking, and is an advanced amateur fencer.

Personality Jenn is an outgoing person with a friedly, yet no-nonsense attitude. She is not afraid to speak her mind... which may be why she still hasn't landed a tenure-track position, despite almost 20 years of working as an adjunct.

Background Born and raised in Burlington, Vermont, Jenn is the daughter of academics. She had a very pleasant childhood, and excelled in school. She attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating in 1995 with a B.A. in archaeology. While an undergrad, she worked two summers on Bronze Age digs in Ireland. After graduation, she was accepted to a Ph.D. program in anthropology at Columbia University. Her field work involved studying rural villages in El Salvador. She was awarded her Ph.D. in August 2001. After the September 11th attacks on New York, Jenn dug in her heels and remained in New York, and accepted a two-year post-doc position at NYU. In the fourteen years since, she has worked as a post-doc at Loyola in New Orleans and at Bates College in Maine. She worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland at Baltimore for two years, before accepting her current visiting professorship at Stanford in 2013.

Jenn is not married. She had been engaged to a professional cellist named Julian Lee, but they mutually broke off their engagement three years ago when nether was willing to put their relationship ahead of their careers. Arthur currently lives in Boston.

Jenn is a practicing Wiccan.

Jenn has a personal fascination with the Middle Ages, and has been a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) since the 1990s. She has also been an avid role-playing gamer since she was in high school and has played numerous games over the years (including Delvers & Dragoons, Heroes/C.H.A.M.P.I.O.N. System, GRUPS, Coral Cardless Role-Playing and Nosferatu: The Masque.) She started playing the Adventurefinder Role-Playing Game when she moved to Palo Alto, and quickly became the local Venture-Sergeant of the AdventureFidnder Society for Organaized Play. Jenn met another AFS player, who invited her to join his home game of the Corpse Coronet Adventure Path. Her character is the female human rogue Pontia Baradin.