"In that same cohort she met Joseph Jensen, who had just returned from the Peace Corps in Venezuela after he had graduated from Cal. After the training, he worked with youth in the foster care system and Ann became a counselor at Alameda County Girl's Home, where she worked with incarcerated young women. They had fun finishing their training, dated for 5 months and then became engaged."
"A few years later, the family moved to Mill Valley where Gordon became the pastor of the Mill Valley Community Church (now UCC) for the next 27 years. The church community and the wider Mill Valley community was a wonderful environment for a childhood of riding bikes with her gang of brothers all around the hilly wooded streets and hiking all over Mt. Tam from the parsonage in Mill Valley to Stinson Beach and the trails in between."
Ann Morgan Jensen was born in Santa Rosa, California, to Marjorie McGregor Foster and Gordon Lynn Foster, a pastor who led Mill Valley Community Church for 27 years. She grew up in Mill Valley with three brothers, enjoying outdoor activities like biking and hiking Mt. Tam. Ann attended Katharine Branson School and earned a BA in Philosophy from Occidental College. In 1967, she joined the Alameda County Probation Department training cohort, where she met Joseph Jensen, a Cal graduate who had served in the Peace Corps. They married in 1968 and remained together for 58 years. Ann worked as a counselor at Alameda County Girl's Home with incarcerated young women, inspired by her college mentor's work with at-risk girls.
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