About Jenni White

  I'm a Constitutional Conservative Christian, lifetime Oklahoma resident. My mother is a retired 33-year public school English teacher. My father is - at 80+ - still a professor of journalism at the University of Oklahoma. I was a successful Teaching Assistant while finishing my Master's degree in Biology, after which I taught high school science and finally retired to become a stay-at-home-mom after teaching 7th grade science on the same team with my mother at the first charter school in Oklahoma - Independence Charter Middle School. I have four children (33, 15, 14 & 11) the latter three of whom have been schooled at home since 4th, 3rd and 1st grades, respectively.

  Though I've voted in every election possible since I was 18 years old (for Reagan by the way) I had never been active in the Republican party or visited my state Capitol to speak with legislators in my life before 2008. That year, I helped organize, and became the Education Director for, the OKC912Project. After two years there, and seeing the mess public education was becoming, I co-founded an organization called Restore Oklahoma Public Education (now Reclaim Oklahoma Parent Empowerment). In 2014 after four solid years of writing, speaking, researching, and lobbying (thanks to the philanthropy of our husbands), ROPE helped repeal Common Core from law in Oklahoma. - Jenni White