Jennifer Madriaga
Jennifer “Jen” Madriaga, T’95, G’98, works as the Senior Manager in Global Community Event Strategy at Red Hat where she heads the Community, Emerging Technologies, and Developer events team.
She has a dual role that sits within corporate marketing (called Brand Experiences internally) and the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO). Jen helps create marketing strategy around events centered on a technical audience. She works with a number of stakeholders across the company, including product marketing, partner marketing, field marketing, sales, AR/PR, and engineering. Before working in the tech industry, Jen worked in higher education, arts management, and non-profits. She is also a short fiction writer and poet, having been awarded an emerging artists grant from the North Carolina Arts Council and Durham Arts Council. She currently lives in Durham, North Carolina.