Early Life
When he was nine, his family moved to Belgium for two years. Jenks attended Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose, New York. When Jenks was 16 he founded the Hendrick Hudson Film Festival, featuring James Earl Jones as its keynote speaker. The festival is now in its 10th year.
His father is Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary General for the United Nations.His mother is Nancy Piper Jenks, a family nurse practitioner who is site director in internal medicine at Hudson River HealthCare in Peekskill, NY. His brother, Matt Jenks, is a senior at Elon University in North Carolina.
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