Jennie S. Bev

author, columnist, entrepreneur, investor, traveler, and philanthropist

Jennie S. Bev is an award-winning author, columnist, and social entrepreneur based in Northern California and commutes regularly to Asia. She has published close to 1,000 articles and 80+ electronic books on topics: business, entrepreneurship, social issues, human rights, communications, peace and justice, and multiculturalism. Her ebook Guide to Become a Management Consultant (FabJob Publisher, Canada) was named 2003 EPPIE Award nominee for excellence in electronic publishing under non-fiction category and she was named 2009 (partial) Peace Writer by Institute for Peace and Justice University of San Diego.

She currently contributes regularly to The Jakarta Post as an opinion columnist, Forbes as a business columnist, Strategic Review as social commentator, Kontan (in Indonesian) as a business columnist and Jaring News as a social commentator. She also writes as a regular blogger-columnist at Psychology Central and She Takes on the World. In addition, she also writes for Fortune, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Female, Jaring News, Bhinneka, and Basis. She has taught more than 50 college writing classes for Western Governors University and is currently registered in the pool of adjunct professors at Columbia College.

Her byline has appeared in The Jakarta Globe, Tempo, Asia Sentinel, Common Ground News, Asia News Network, The Korea Times, The Brunei Times, Malaysian Insider, Media Bistro, Women’s International Perspectives, USA Rise Up, Tracy Press, Audrey, NY Parenting and the inserts to New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Kansas City Star and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, among others.

Topics that interest her include: social issues, humanity, human rights, psychology, education, law, entrepreneurship, property investment, global business, and publishing.

She holds LLB from University of Indonesia Law School, MS in Education from California State University Hayward (East Bay), Technical Writing from University of California Berkeley, MBA from CCU, DBA program from Northcentral University, and is currently pursuing PsyD at California Southern University and LLM in US Law with Florida Coastal School of Law. She is based in Northern California and commutes to Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, and Europe regularly.

As a valuable and unique source for housing activism, business, and social issue commentaries, she has been interviewed, featured, and cited by these publications: Entrepreneur, Teen People, Home Business, The Jakarta Globe, MDIS Singapore, T3 (UK), Dong (Germany), The Independent, Tracy Press, The Arizona Republic, The Daily Southtown, San Francisco Chronicle, Swiss Public Radio, Voice of America, Radio Singapore International, KCRA-TV, among others.

She is an ardent advocate of housing issues in USA for Mountain House Action Group (California), an expert advisor for the first free-tuition school for gifted children in Indonesia named Cugenang GIfted School in West Java, and concept creator of character development with "success mindset" in Indonesia ("Mindset Sukses" book is used by Pusdiklat Depdiknas RI as a reference in state university-lecturers training).

She is a member of Asian American Journalists Association and 85 Broads, an exclusive global networking association for women leaders in business, education, and philanthropy.

When she is not writing, she manages a licensed property brokerage firm based in California and invests in properties worldwide, a PR firm, and a legal consultant firm. She is a serial social entrepreneur whose works have been receiving accolades worldwide.

She can be reached by email:
jenniesbevcom (at) gmail (dot) com
jenniesbevcom (at) yahoo (dot) com

By phone:
+1 415 251 8309 (US number)