Jean Warner's Short Bio

Jean Warner authors a website/blog under the heading of the Oklahoma Women’s Network Blog. The  goal of the blog is celebrate, inform, and empower Oklahoma women and girls.

Dr. Warner is co-founder of The Oklahoma Women’s Coalition, a statewide nonprofit organization organized in 2008 to advocate on behalf of Oklahoma women and girls at the State level. She served as the first OWC chair and now serves on the board and chairs the Leadership Development Committee.

Jean has a PhD from the University of Oklahoma in Political Science. Along with Norman Mayor Cindy Rosenthal, she co-founded and coordinated Oklahoma's National Education for Women’s Leadership program. NEW Leadership is a five-day leadership academy hosted each May for undergraduate women across Oklahoma designed to educate, inspire, and empower participants to become political leaders.

Jean lives in Oklahoma City with her husband Larkin who is a retired Regents Professor of Economic from Oklahoma State University. She has led three mission trips to Central Kenya to build a children's library and make improvements at a school for deaf children and a school for mentally challenged children in Meru.

Warner received the YWCA of Oklahoma City's "Embrace Award" in June of 2009, the "Pioneer Woman Award"  from the Oklahoma Women's Coalition in June of 2010, and was named by The Journal Record as one of "Fifty Women Making a Difference in Oklahoma" in October of 2010.