Elisabeth Jensen

Elisabeth Jensen was born in Indiana and graduated from Perry Meridian High School in Indianapolis after attending Aiglon College. Jensen earned a degree in design and merchandising from the Wood Tobé-Coburn School and attended the Fashion Institute of Technology. Jensen was an executive for Disney Consumer Products but, as a lifelong horse enthusiast, decided to move to Kentucky in order to work with Thoroughbreds.

In 2000, Jensen became the manager of Tracy Farmer’s stables and later managed public relations for WinStar Farm. In 2002, Jensen co-founded The Race for Education, an organization that provides services such as scholarships and financial literacy training to students with financial needs. The Race for Education has provided over $5 million in scholarships and education programs and has earned recognition from the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Jensen founded another organization in 2009 called Starting Gate, an after-school organization for middle school students that is currently offered in Fayette and Bourbon counties. She has also been involved in an organization called Unique that provides support for families with children that have unique and chromosome disorders.

Elisabeth has served as a volunteer for several political campaigns, including Gov. Steve Beshear and U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler, and was an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2012. In 2011, Gov. Steve Beshear appointed Jensen to the Kentucky Department of Education’s State Advisory Panel for Exceptional Children.

In December 2013, Jensen filed to run for the Democratic nomination for Kentucky’s 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, 2014.

Today, she serves as executive vice president of KEEP, the Kentucky Equine Education Project.