Hi!

I’m Jenn Armbrust (she/they). I’m the founder of Sister and a leader in the field of feminist entrepreneurship. I’ve been writing, speaking, and consulting on bringing feminist principles into business practices for over a decade. Since launching Feminist Business School in 2015, I’ve taught over 500 students and authored 3 books, Proposals for the Feminine Economy, The Business Birthing Handbook, and Feminist Flourishing Framework.

My work has been written about in several publications, including Forbes magazine and at least one college textbook. In 2018, I was featured in Conscious Company magazine’s 30 World-Changing Women issue.

I opened my first bootstrapped business, an art gallery called Motel, at the age of 25 in Portland, Oregon. Since then, I’ve founded 4 more companies: a creative consultancy, interactive design studio, online arts magazine, and most recently, Sister. I also worked as managing director for an arts nonprofit.

My feminism is shaped by years of academic study and rooted in feminist movement history, theory, scholarship, and art. My feminism is intersectional, antiracist, antifascist, anticapitalist, queer, earth-loving, trans-inclusive, pro-immigrant, and pro-abortion. I created Feminist Business School courses to help feminists build businesses in harmony with their bodies, their beliefs, their communities, and the earth. I see feminist entrepreneurship as a site of personal power, radical creativity, and meaningful social change.

I hold a degree in Critical Theory and political economy from The Evergreen State College. As an undergrad, I served as an editorial intern at Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the esteemed feminist academic journal. I have advanced studies in small business administration, interactive design, and healing arts, and have completed several business development programs.

In 2021, at the height of Sister’s success, I was forced to stop working and shutter my company for three years to focus on healing full-time, after several years of being sick. In 2024, I wrote Feminist Flourishing Framework with the conviction that what we learn through the process of healing our human bodies is essential to the feminist work of healing our social, political, and economic bodies.

Over the past three decades, I’ve utilized a wide range of conventional and unconventional healing modalities including: acupuncture, acupressure, Advance Allergy Therapeutics, allopathic medicine, applied kinesiology, brain retraining, Brainspotting, breathwork, chiropractic, EMDR, energy healing, Functional Medicine, Havening, IFS, intuitive medicine, massage, NAET, nutritional healing, off-label pharmaceuticals, PVT, Somatic Experiencing, spiritual divination, TCM, TRE, visualization, yoga, and more.

I’ve spent over a decade studying healing arts with a renowned energy healer.

Each of these modalities have given me unique insights into the mechanics of healing and transformation, insights that are increasingly relevant to our feminist politics and practice. I created the Feminist Flourishing Club to share these perspectives and practices.

I live on the west coast of what is, for now, the United States. I am enamored with the Pacific Ocean and like to spend my time tidepooling, beach combing, swimming, kayaking, small-wave surfing, dancing, and dreaming about breathing underwater.