Jennifer Forbes-Baily was introduced to folk dancing at a Foreign Language Week celebration at the University of Nebraska-Omaha in spring of 1982. She has continued to dance every week since then. In August 1986 Jennifer was diagnosed with stage 3 metastatic breast cancer. Since then, she has undergone and survived a mastectomy, a bone marrow harvest and many other therapeutic clinical procedures which has amazed her oncologist team.

Jennifer continues to dance 4 times per week and has attended many workshops and festivals around the Midwest such as: the Door County Folk Festival, the Madison Folk Ball, Montreal Folk Dance Camp and Kathleen Kerr's marvelous University of Northern Iowa dance workshops. Jennifer has also taught international dance courses for the Omaha JCC, the University of Nebraska-Omaha College of Education and the Omaha School System.

Jennifer has hosted the annual Omaha PINK PARTY Folk Dance Celebration since 2007 and is still MUCH in LOVE with her dance family. Jennifer’s mottos are: “Dancing is good medicine. Dance on!”, and "You gotta get well to keep on dancing!" Now if only her knees would cooperate…