Jennifer Hollett

Jennifer Hollett is the executive director at The Walrus, Canada’s Conversation. The Walrus is known for its award winning independent journalism, fact checking, and national ideas-focused events.

As an award winning TV host and producer, Jennifer has over a decade of experience at CBC, CTV, and MuchMusic covering stories across Canada and around the world. She has appeared frequently as a commentator on CTV, CBC, and Newstalk 1010.

Her career began in the late ‘90s when digital wasn’t yet called digital at Sony Music Canada, where she became the company’s youngest manager, developing new media strategies for the label’s top artists. Jennifer also co-founded a startup and developed the fact checking “Super PAC App,” which debuted #1 in its category in the App Store, helping make political TV ads more transparent. Most recently she was the head of news and government at Twitter Canada.

Jennifer studied public policy at Harvard University, obtaining her MPA. She has a BA with a specialization in journalism and communications from Concordia University. As a member of Media Girlfriends, Jennifer created a series of student scholarships raising $74,000 to help diversify Canadian media and support a rising generation of storytellers.