Jensen has served as the director of SNAPP since 2017. She joined The Nature Conservancy in 2008 as a senior conservation scientist and fulfilled roles including Science Advisor to SNAPP and the Luc Hoffmann Institute, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a Beverly Cobble Rodriguez Lecturer at the University of Virginia.

Prior to joining SNAPP, Jensen managed diverse programs including the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Migratory Bird Program at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Conservation International’s Rapid Assessment Program. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nicaragua.

A National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Jensen received her doctorate in interdisciplinary ecology from the University of Florida where she studied the effects of human activity on endemic land birds in the Kingdom of Tonga and Turks and Caicos Islands.