Jennifer Sinco Kelleher is a reporter at Newsday, where she covers crime and courts on Long Island. She joined Newsday in September 2002 from the Los Angeles Times, where she worked for a year as part of Tribune Company's Minority Editorial Training Program.

Jennifer has interned at the Honolulu Advertiser, the Detroit News, the Orange County Register and Copley News Service's Los Angeles bureau. While attending the University of Southern California, she wrote for Rafu Shimpo's magazine and was an editor for her campus Asian American newspaper, Bamboo Offshoot. She graduated in May 2001 with a bachelor's degree in print journalism and Asian American studies and ethnicity. She is also a Chips Quinn Scholar, a journalism program sponsored by the Freedom Forum.

A self-proclaimed hapa haole, Jennifer was born in Hawaii to a Filipina from the Philippines and an Irishman from New Jersey. She is fairly fluent in Ilocano, a Filipino language.

Still adjusting to life on the East Coast, Jennifer is settling into her apartment in Forest Hills, Queens. Trying to bring a little paradise to the big city, she teaches hula to second-graders in Astoria during her spare time.

Jennifer is a New York AAJA board member.