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JEN MODLISZEWSKI, PHOTOGRAPHER

 Photo ©Neil Jacobs

Just in time for Women's History Month, photographer Jen Modliszewski invites us to celebrate those femme fatales of the orchid family – the lady’s slippers.
First Lady Abigail Adams counseled her husband to "...remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.” Two hundred years later, the echo of Abigail’s words rings true as NAOCC continues our mission to conserve our orchid heritage.
Jen Modliszewski from Warrenton, Virginia, is an avid photographer whose passion for plants was nurtured in the shaded forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In 2005, she and her husband, Neil Jacobs, began their quest to document the native orchids of the Carolinas. Jen prefers macro photography – “the splendor of most native orchids is difficult to appreciate with an unaided eye.” Jen obtained her B.S. and M.S. degrees from North Carolina State University in botany and horticulture. She continued her studies at Duke University and earned her Ph.D. investigating the effects of polyploidy (the condition where an organism possesses more than two complete sets of chromosomes) on evolution in the shy monkey flower, (Mimulus sookensis). Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill, studying the molecular mechanisms of cell division necessary for sexual reproduction in the mouse ear cress, (Arabidopsis thaliana).

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