AboutUs
Jenni’s Flower is a youth-founded and youth-led organization that empowers youth impacted by the foster care system to bloom at their highest potential. Our mission to uplift and nurture all of our seeds on their journey to self-discovery and self-actualization.
The Beginning
How It All Started
After becoming homeless during her last quarter at UCLA, Founder Cheyenne Cobb created Jenni's Flower to provide a community space for healing utilizing the same compassion, love and resilience instilled in her by her mother, Jenni. Since spending years in therapy and diving head first into her own healing, Cheyenne realized the lack of youth-led spaces and opportunities for foster youth was contributing to further isolation and an inability for her peers to thrive.
She hosted the first ever Foster Youth Flea Market in May of 2022 to create a platform for her peers to make their own money without having to pay any vendor fees or face any barriers to selling their products, and this served as a catalyst for her to realize the true potential of the organization and it's purpose. She quit her full-time job in September of 2022 and has been running Jenni's Flower ever since. And well... the rest is history.
Who Is Jenni?
Mother, Sister, Friend, Companion
If you ask anyone who had the honor of knowing Jenni, they will tell you that her soul was simply one of a kind. She was a fearless and radiant light that lit up every room she walked into. After a toxic and unhealthy marriage riddled with substance abuse and domestic violence, Jenni made the courageous decision to provide a better life for her four seeds, Cheyenne, Sierra, Brandon and Savannah. While raising her seeds on her own, she put herself through school and attended United Educational Institute in San Diego where she graduated in 2005. Shortly after she started work for Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego as a Medical Assistant in the Outpatient Neurology Clinic. Jenni was known for her ability to make others smile and laugh, no matter the situation. She was compassionate, hopeful and charismatic. When Jenni passed in 2015, her oldest seeds, Savannah and Brandon, fought for guardianship of Cheyenne and Sierra, thus beginning their journey as foster youth and all of the implications that came with it.
After almost a year, Savannah and Brandon received permanent guardianship of Sierra and Cheyenne, and the seeds designed a tattoo to carry Jenni's legacy with them at all times. The Jenni's Flower logo is the exact tattoo that all 4 seeds share that incorporates all of the elements of Jenni. Her favorite flower, a sunflower rests up top, and the stem is her exact signature from Sierra's birth certificate, a hallmark inscription that represents a piece of Jenni.