In addition to her dedication to homeless children, Jeanie is an award-winning novelist and occasional journalist. Her first novel is loosely based on her experience living in a Greenland village on the top of the world. She researched her next novel by joining a hunter-gatherer tribe in Africa.
Her experience as a foster parent then adoptive parent has been the subject of two CBS specials. Her humanitarian work has been acknowledge by a long list of awards which include the Jefferson Award, San Francisco Foundation’s Award, The Commision on Woman Making History Award,
The Espiritu Award from the Isabel Allende Foundation, and the2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Francisco and Urban Research Association.
Jeanie is the mother of two adopted children and the stepmother of three.
