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Clark Jenson
Clark Jenson
Nonprofit Entrepreneur, Global Family Care Network

CSU Bakersfield
B.A., Anthropology (1992)
M.A. Cultural Anthropology (1999)

  • A passion to relieve suffering caused by poverty, marginalization, and exploitation around the world, Jensen is the founder of charitable enterprises that rescue children from trafficking, cares for survivors of modern slavery, and implements transformative community-development programs.
  • Founded Global Family Care Network, an organization working in nine countries that protects children and preserves families through prevention, intervention, therapeutic counseling, and alternative aftercare and reintegration.
  • Director of St. James Research Centre in Scotland, which he founded to research and train practitioners in evidence-based social interventions.
  • Began as a physical education teacher at Stockdale Christian School in Bakersfield and joined the pastoral team at First Assembly of God Church. His first efforts working with at-risk children were starting Kids Clubs in partnership with Teen Challenge in Bakersfield during the early 1990s.
  • Also founded initiatives such as Hope Alliance India to provide disaster relief after the Asian Tsunami in 2004/2005. ​

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