Jennifer West received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Stage Management from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She currently teaches courses in theater and production at Victor Valley College in Victorville, California, in addition to serving as a trainer and mentor to student stage managers.Her diverse stage management credits over her 15-year career include musicals, Shakespeare, theater for young audiences, music, dance and Celine Dion's "A New Day" in Las Vegas. In 2009 Jennifer served on the production staff of the festival "Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. She has a bachelor's degree in agricultural business, and she was a frequent contributor to the national magazine of the National FFA Organization. She also worked in the press and marketing department of ESPN's Pro Beach Hockey. She was a thesis editor and library clerk at the former Federal Library of the Year, the Dudley Knox Library of the US Naval Postgraduate School, from which she earned a postgraduate certificate in Information Systems Technology.