Jennice Fuentes

Founder + CEO, BoricuActivatEd

Los Angeles

Jennice Fuentes is a multilingual polymath with a distinguished career in the arts, the political world of Washington, D.C., and most recently the nonprofit

arena. As an actress, Jennice has most recently appeared on Law & Order SVU (2018)and House of Cards (2015). She also enjoyed a recurring role in the HBO critically-acclaimed series, K Street (2003). As a film critic, Jennice is a frequent guest and guest host on NPR DC's live, two-hour radio program, "The Kojo Nmandi Show" and on "9 News Tonight", the local news show on WUSA 9, the CBS network affiliate station in Washington.

Jennice is also an informed cultural commentator and frequent guest on various national news networks, including CNN and various Spanish-language networks. Her movie reviews, celebrity interviews and entertainment articles have appeared in a number of Spanish language magazines, including Peopleen Español, Cristina La Revista, Caras Magazine and Vista Magazine.

During her decades-long career as a Chief of Staff on Capitol Hill, Jennice worked with high-level representatives from the arts industries to advance public funding and programs for the creative arts. Since leaving the Hill, Jennice founded a boutique government relations firm that provides access to senior Washington power players, as well as a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower, educate, and encourage civic engagement across the Puerto Rican Diaspora. She holds a B.A. from Clark University and a M.A. from New York University and has also studied overseas at the Ecole Europeene des Affairs in Paris, France. 2016, she was chosen to participate in the prestigious Stanford Latino Entrepreneurs Leaders Program at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

A native of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, she is a native Spanish speaker but is also fluent in English, French and Italian and conversant in Russian and German.