Jenna is Senior Vice President of Development for Disney Branded Television, the unit of Disney Entertainment Television that creates premium original content that brings the magic of Disney to life for kids and families every day on Disney+, Disney Channel and Disney Junior. In this role, she oversees the live-action scripted series development team and creatively supervises the production of live-action scripted series pilots for Disney+ and Disney Channel, with a focus on building out Disney Branded Television’s multi-cam strategy, along with global Disney+ tentpole series.

Since being named to the role in 2023, Jenna has been instrumental in identifying and creating new live-action scripted series for kids, teens, and families filled with magic, wonder, adventure, and heart, that will help create lifelong Disney fans. Upcoming titles under her purview include Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, the revival of hit Disney Channel series, Wizards of Waverly Place, which reunites original stars Selena Gomez and David Henrie, who are also executive producing the show.

Jenna is a veteran kids’ and family entertainment executive with a track record of developing hit shows for this important demographic. Most recently, she oversaw her own production company, Field Day Entertainment, and partnered with The Cartel – where she also served as a manager – to develop a roster of talent and create kids, family and animation content for broadcasters and streamers around the world. Prior to launching Field Day Entertainment, Jenna was director of Kids & Family Series at Netflix, where she built and oversaw the company’s original animation and live-action series slate and creative team focused on kids and family content, including Alexa & Katie, Julie and the Phantoms and The Baby-Sitters Club adaptation, which won a 2022 Children’s and Family Emmy award for Outstanding Children’s or Family Viewing Series. Jenna held prior roles as Chief Content Officer at GoldieBlox and Senior Vice President of Animation Development at Nickelodeon, where she first began her career in series development, working on Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Jenna received her undergraduate degree in communications from Ohio University and was honored in Variety’s annual Young Hollywood Impact Report in 2019.

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