Jane Jenkins - Downtown Oklahoma City Partnership

Jane Jenkins is President and CEO of Downtown Oklahoma City Partnership. Jane was born in Virginia and moved to Charleston, SC in high school. It’s is there she discovered her love of historic downtowns. Jane moved to Tulsa to attend Oral Roberts University and fell in love with Oklahoma. With a degree in communications and education, Jane taught school for several years before “taking a break” to move to Wagner, OK to run their historic downtown. 30+ years later she is still taking a break and honing her skills and love for revitalizing and managing downtowns in Pawhuska, Boulder, and for the past 12 years, Oklahoma City. Jane is an internationally recognized speaker and expert on urban issues. She is a former Chairman for the International Downtown Association Board of Directors and is also active in the International Economic Development Council, Urban Land Institute, and the American Institute of Architects. In 2014, Jane earned accreditation from the Congress for New Urbanism and she was recently named a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Place Management in Manchester, England. Welcome, Jane to Action City!