2021 Advocate of the Year

Jen Wollesen
DMACC Carroll Campus & Carroll Regional College Access Network Coordinator

Jen Wollesen currently serves as the Career Advantage Site Director at the DMACC Carroll Campus and the Carroll Regional College Access Network Coordinator. The first 15 years of Jen’s career were spent in the K-12 realm with positions as an alternative high school teacher, high school math teacher, high school counselor and track coach. From there Jen entered the community college arena and has worked as a counselor, advisor and faculty member prior to her current roles. She has a bachelor’s degree in secondary math education with a coaching endorsement and master’s degrees in technology-based learning and professional school counseling. Jen has spent her entire life in rural Iowa and as a first-generation college student herself, she has a passion for providing opportunities to and assisting students with finding and pursuing their dreams. Jen and her husband, Eric, have three adult daughters and one Italian “daughter” (foreign exchange student that lived with them four years ago.) In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, being outdoors, camping, and traveling.