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Spotlight on Centurions – Jen Houston

Jen Houston is a senior vice president and community relations manager for UMB Financial Corporation. As a member of Centurions, Jen is the chairman for the Centurions’ Spring Cohort’s Environmentalism Task Force, and she has served on the steering committee. Jen has a bachelor of journalism degree and a bachelor of arts degree in Spanish from the University of Missouri, and a master of business administration degree from UMKC. She and her husband, Brad Rentfrow, live in Blue Springs, Missouri.

2019 Spring Centurions Steering Committee Members: Andrew Lang, Jen Houston, Lindsay Jarquio, Jessica Blubaugh, Derek Klaus, Libby Bane, and Leanne Breiby

Also featured in the September 19, 2020 issue of The Independent

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MOCSA Volunteer

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Rising Star Laura Palacios

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