Jen Bowser

Chair-Elect, CUCSA 2023

Operations Officer, CUCSA 2022

Second Year Delegate, UC San Diego 2021

First Year Delegate, UC San Diego 2020

Job Title: Sustainability Procurement Program Manager and Small Business Officer

UC Service: 9 years
Email: jbowser@ucsb.edu
Phone: (805) 893-3528
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Biography

In her role as Sustainable Procurement Program Manager, Jen leads efforts for implementing sustainable procurement practices, increasing awareness of sustainability programs, and helping to ensure UCSB is on track to meet our sustainable procurement goals. Jen also serves as UCSB’s Small Business Officer.

Jen transitioned to UC Santa Barbara in early 2023 from UC San Diego where she managed sustainability engagement efforts, coordinating various conservation outreach and educational programs for students, researchers and staff on the UC San Diego campus for seven years. Before her career in sustainability, Jen was a Senior Accountant in UC San Diego’s General Accounting Department.

Jen was born and raised in Western Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Western New England University. In 2014, she moved to San Diego from Boston, where she had worked in Financial Services at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). There, Jen revitalized the HSPH sustainability team, EcoOpportunity and co-chaired the group from 2009 to 2014.

She served as an executive board member of the Staff Sustainability Network (SSN) at UC San Diego since she began working at the university in October 2014. As part of her role with SSN, Jen joined the UC San Diego Staff Association Executive Board and was nominated Chair-Elect in July 2020. She served as Chair from July 2021 – June 2022 before being elected to serve as CUCSA Operations Officer in July 2022. Jen was elected in 2023 as Chair-elect of CUCSA.

Jen values community, and sees her role on CUCSA as fostering a workplace that is supportive, safe and rewarding for all staff.