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As a student majoring in Secondary Education with a concentration in English literature, Jenny Price never considered doing anything other than teaching. Born in Memphis, she moved with her family to Tupelo when she was 10. After graduating from Tupelo High School, Jenny attended Mississippi College, where she also minored in Spanish. “I love to travel,” she says. After graduating from college, she spent a summer doing mission work in Ecuador before making a move to Coldwater, Mississippi, where she fulfilled 20 • June 2021
her scholarship obligations teaching Spanish for three years while getting her graduate degree from the University of Memphis in Applied Linguistics. After her three years were up, Jenny went on to teach school in Tupelo while her husband, Doug, finished law school at the University of Mississippi. “Doug and I met at church camp when we were 12,” she says. “We started dating when we were 16.” After law school, Doug got a clerking position with the Supreme Court and the couple moved back to Jackson. “We bought a house in Belhaven @realproducers
and I went to work at Mississippi College as the English as a Second Language (ESL) coordinator where I worked with students from all over the world.” Working with international students fulfilled Jenny’s desire to teach, as she was helping students from other countries navigate college while living in a foreign country. She was the ESL realproducersmag.com
coordinator for a few years before advancing and becoming a director for international programs, which fulfilled her desire for travel. “It was my dream job,” she says. “I traveled to places like China, Korea and Puerto Rico, and I loved it.” In 2011, Jenny and Doug had their first son, Welby. “I was away in Puerto Rico when Welby came down
with bronchitis,” she says. “Doug was handling his breathing treatments well until his grandfather had an aneurism and passed away. I couldn’t get home and for the first time I thought the job I had might not work for our family.” The couple had a second son, Charlie, in 2014. “It became apparent to me that I couldn’t be the mom I wanted to be and still travel
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