Jennifer Shahade

Jennifer is a two-time U.S. Women's Chess Champion, speaker, host, author, and PokerStars Ambassador. 

The Program Director at US Chess Women, Jennifer, is passionate about female empowerment and creative work around the games she loves most: chess and poker.  

She is the author of Chess Bitch and Play Like a Girl, books aimed at bringing more females into the game.  

She is a firm believer that thinking inside the GRID (the title of her poker podcast), is the best way to organize our thinking in a hectic world, as well as a portal into deep and beautiful thought.