Jennifer Mazzuckelli

Jennifer Mazzuckelli, who goes by Jen, has delivered newspapers, worked at a landscape nursery, held a human resources job and taught high school English.¹ Her mother was a teacher and her father a federal employee.² She grew up in Jacksonville, Illinois, before moving to Clermont County during high school.²

After graduating from Glen Este High School, Mazzuckelli began college at Trinity in Washington before transferring to Illinois College.² She worked at Wendy's while studying and graduated in 1995 with an English degree.² She wrote for her college newspaper and was founding editor of a political journal.¹ Her college experiences included an internship in the Pentagon's Office of Community Relations.¹ She later began teacher training while her oldest child was still a baby, earning a Master of Arts in Teaching at Miami University.¹

A single mother of three, Mazzuckelli has described managing housing and food insecurity while raising her family.¹ She ran unsuccessfully for Clermont County commissioner in 2024, then won the 2026 Democratic congressional primary.³ She is now challenging Republican incumbent David Taylor.³

Her platform calls for stronger environmental and consumer protections and breaking up monopolies.⁴ She also supports creating an infrastructure bank to finance roads, power grids, information networks and community services such as hospitals and childcare.⁴