Jenn Galandy has maintained a passion for impacting meaningful change throughout the course of her career. After spending a number of years in the public policy space, serving as the Policy Project Manager at Cabinet Office in London, England, and the Policy and Strategy Manager for the Ministry of Justice for the United Kingdom Government; Jenn realized her true calling was serving people at an individual level. To pursue this new goal, Jenn returned to her hometown of Calgary, Alberta, where she now holds a position in Human Resources at the University of Calgary. 

She graduated with her Master’s degree in Public Policy at the University of Nottingham July 2018, with Merit Honours. Her thesis dissertation was on the obstacles female politicians face in Canada’s federal political system. Over the course of her masters, Jenn Galandy completed her own primary research for her thesis and was granted ethical approval from the University to conduct this research, in Ottawa June 2017. In the years since, Jenn has continued this research in hopes of shedding light on ongoing issues surrounding women’s involvement in politics, and published a journal article derived from the findings of her masters thesis.

Before that, Galandy completed her four-year undergraduate degree at the University of Calgary, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. During her time at UofC, Jenn took part in a variety of campus activities. She was a member of the Political Science Association and the Model United Nations Team, through which she worked with the United Nations Calgary organization. Jenn chaired the annual High School Model United Nations (HSMUN) conferences at the University of Calgary from 2013 to 2020, at which she would attend training sessions and facilitate a number of debates amongst high school students.

Jenn Galandy served as a representative for the University of Nottingham, alongside European Union Parliamentarians, at the 2017 European Union Citizenship Conference. Held in Milan, Italy, the conference placed a heavy emphasis on the human rights and legal standings for EU citizenship in light of the EU-Exit movement in Great Britain. As a part of this experience, Jenn was required to conduct extensive research on the topic and prepare her findings for presentation to the committee. The results of her research were later presented at an EU Parliamentary Session in the summer of 2017 in Strasbourg, France.