Jenna Date

As the Director of the Master’s Program, Jenna works with faculty, staff, alumni, and current students to create a rigorous, engaging and rewarding experience for each incoming class of students.

Prior to the Directorship at MHCI, Jenna co-founded Fit Associates, LLC. Fit’s intention is to lead, nurture, connect and equip conscious clients for the greatest impact for the common good. Fit's industry client list includes Nissan, Comcast, Whirlpool, SAP, Microsoft and Respironics. Jenna worked with design, engineering, marketing and executive teams to make their products and processes better for their end-users. Her expertise range from team process development, workshop facilitation, ethnographic research, usability evaluation, concept development and evaluation, interaction and interface design, and rapid prototyping. 

Prior to Fit, Jenna's experience as a researcher and interaction designer spans a wide range of products: medical software for physicians and nurses at Siemens Medical Solutions, collaborative visual software for generals and soldiers at MAYA Viz, interfaces for children at the BBC and prototypes for futures devices at the Carnegie Museum of Art, just to name a few.