Jennifer Brien is a

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host based in

Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...

. She was born and raised in

Woonsocket, Rhode Island Woonsocket ( ), is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 43,240 at the 2020 census, making it the sixth largest city in the state. Being Rhode Island's northernmost city, Woonsocket lies directly south of ...

and served six years in the Army Military Police (MP) K-9 Unit.

Career

Brien formerly hosted her own show on weekdays from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on

WRKO WRKO (680 AM) is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England. Owned by iHeartMedia, WRKO is a Class B AM station that provides secondary coverage to portio ...

in Boston, Massachusetts. She was replaced by

Michele McPhee Michele R. McPhee (born April 8, 1970) is an American author, talk radio host, and five-time Emmy nominated investigative journalist from Boston. McPhee also worked as columnist and correspondent to the ''Boston Herald'', was the New England report ...

, who returned to

on June 11, 2012. Brien was named as the "permanent replacement" for the retired Steve Leveille on weekends from midnight-5:00 a.m. on WBZ in Boston. ''The Jen Brien Show'' began on June 25, 2013, and lasted for three months. On October 2, 2013, it was announced that the show would no longer air on WBZ. Fill-in host Morgan White, Jr. read a statement from WBZ program director Peter Casey saying that the station had re-evaluated its programming, and to better serve its overnight listeners, Brien would no longer air. Casey wrote that White, Jr. would be temporarily replacing Brien for the rest of the week and more information about the overnight show would be announced later. Brien formerly co-hosted a weekday morning talk show on WHJJ in Providence with Ron St. Pierre. She has also hosted shows on WCOD-FM and WXTK in

Cape Cod, Massachusetts Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer mont ...

, and WHAM of

Rochester, New York Rochester () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, and Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located i ...

. In 2021, Jen launched a podcast with Rhode Island Radio Hall Of Famer Ron St. Pierre, called "Ron and Jen's Great Escape".'Escape (and Smile) with Ron and Jen’s Great Escape', Rhode Island Monthly
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