Rev. Jenny Saperstein grew up in the PC(USA) and has served the church as a deacon and as a ruling elder. She is a graduate of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Jenny grew up “in the west,” notably, Washington state, California, and Colorado.

Jenny is anishinaabe, waganakising odawa — a member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in northern Michigan. After seminary in Texas, Jenny and her husband Patrick moved to Michigan where she found her first pastoral call at Northside Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor. Jenny and Patrick have two children.