Pamela Joy Jensen has been a resident of Wayne for almost 40 years and has attended Wayne Presbyterian Church for most of that time. As a member of the Social Justice Advocacy and Adult Education Committees, she has helped to coordinate the visits of many invited speakers on topics related to anti-racism and creation care. She chairs the Church Library Committee and enjoys assisting members in finding books or information about WPC history in the library collection. Together with Rutger Boerema, she founded and co-chairs the Earth Care group and co-led efforts to make WPC a PC-USA Earth Care Congregation. From 2016-2019, she served on Session and was co-moderator of WinGS. She is a member of the Board of Directors of two of WPC’s mission partners: the Wayne Senior Center and the Radnor Township Civic Association. An avid gardener committed to learning how we can all be better stewards of our environment by creating suburban habitat filled with native plants, she is currently president of the Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens Board of Directors. Now retired, she worked for two decades as a Research Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and subsequently as a law clerk for the Pennsylvania Superior and Supreme Court. Her education includes a B.S. in chemistry from Muhlenberg College, a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Biography
Pamela Joy Jensen has been a resident of Wayne for almost 40 years and has attended Wayne Presbyterian Church for most of that time. As a member of the Social Justice Advocacy and Adult Education Committees, she has helped to coordinate the visits of many invited speakers on topics related to anti-racism and creation care. She chairs the Church Library Committee and enjoys assisting members in finding books or information about WPC history in the library collection. Together with Rutger Boerema, she founded and co-chairs the Earth Care group and co-led efforts to make WPC a PC-USA Earth Care Congregation. From 2016-2019, she served on Session and was co-moderator of WinGS. She is a member of the Board of Directors of two of WPC’s mission partners: the Wayne Senior Center and the Radnor Township Civic Association. An avid gardener committed to learning how we can all be better stewards of our environment by creating suburban habitat filled with native plants, she is currently president of the Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens Board of Directors. Now retired, she worked for two decades as a Research Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and subsequently as a law clerk for the Pennsylvania Superior and Supreme Court. Her education includes a B.S. in chemistry from Muhlenberg College, a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota.