Jennifer Dunning was born and raised in Montana, receiving her Bachelor of Nursing from Montana State University in 2007. She moved to Philadelphia to work in University of Pennsylvania's Level 1 Trauma Center and also worked as an Operating Room/PACU, Emergency Department, and in the ICU in Missouri, Montana, and Utah, respectively. In August of 2023, Jen graduated from Georgetown University with her Women's Health Nurse Practitioner degree.