MEET THE TEAM

Jennifer Howard is a graduate of The Juilliard School, and had an extensive professional dance career, touring and performing as a member of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp Dance Company, Eliot Feld Ballet, Sarah Michelson, Lucinda Childs Dance Company, Liz Gerring Dance Company, and Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. After her performing career, Jennifer has dedicated herself to teaching, including as Director of Dance at St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH, Director of Summer Programs at Colorado Conservatory of Dance, and as a visiting artist at Dartmouth College, Next Generation Ballet, Tampa, FL, and Denver School of the Arts. While still in New York, Jennifer began teaching with Jacques d’Amboise National Dance Institute, then with Kansas City Ballet’s Reach Out and Dance, and once she moved to Colorado, with Celebrate the Beat. Working with elementary school children, and often exposing them to dance for the first time, became a passion for Jennifer. Most recently Jennifer took on the role of Managing Director of Celebrate the Beat.

As a board member of Presenting Denver, Jennifer brings over 25 years of experience in the arts as a performer and 13 years in arts education. Jennifer was recently named Managing Director of Celebrate the Beat, a Denver based nonprofit which provides, often in marginalized communities, dance programs for children to improve their physical health and well-being, inspire them to believe in themselves, and establish a standard of excellence that impacts all aspects of their lives. Jennifer’s husband, Erik Langner, has worked in public media for nearly twenty years and is currently the CEO of Information Equity Initiative, a nonprofit that delivers high quality educational resources to families that lack access to broadband. Jennifer and Erik are longtime supporters of the arts in Denver, as well as Colorado Public Radio, Rocky Mountain PBS and KUVO.