Jene Nelson

Jene Nelson grew up in Pueblo, Colorado. She is the daughter of a single mother, Betty Nelson. Jene studied mass communications in college and went on to become a multiple Emmy Award winning journalist. She has more than twenty years of experience as a news producer and writer. Her work has received recognition on local, regional and national levels. Jene's first job in television was hosting an afternoon movie for which she was paid twenty dollars a day. Jene is passionate about fair and humane treatment of all living things and as a result, spent a year working on the documentary, I Breathe, which is about the commercial dog breeding industry. Jene is a former Miss Colorado USA and competed in the 1979 Miss USA Pageant in Biloxi, Mississippi. She is a Colorado native and lives in the Denver metro area with two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and a Siamese cat.