Jenni spent the formative years of her career in librarianship at the Social & Political Sciences Library (2002-2015) at the University of Cambridge before moving to her current role at the African Studies Library.
Within Cambridge, she has previously held Co-Chair roles of the Race Equality Network and the Faculty and Departmental Librarians Network. Currently, Jenni is a member of the Decolonising through Critical Librarianship group, who were winners of the Professional Services Recognition Scheme Awards 2022 in the Cross-University category and with whom she has co-authored the chapter in the edited volume "Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries".
Jenni is a Cambridge University Libraries Decolonisation Working Group representative, advisor on the Black Advisory Hub Steering Group, and a member of the Wolfson College Cambridge REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage) Research Hub Steering Group.
More broadly, she is Chair of SCOLMA (UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) and is a member of the Editorial Committee for the joint journal of the International African Institute and SCOLMA, "Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation".
Building on this network of African Studies specialists in libraries and archives in the UK, she is also an elected member of the ASAUK Council (African Studies Association of the UK).