Jennifer Shahade is a two-time United States Women's Champion and has the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster.
15 Facts About Jennifer Shahade
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Jennifer Shahade is a MindSports Ambassador for PokerStars and a board member of the World Chess Hall of Fame in Saint Louis.
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Jennifer Shahade was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of FIDE Master Mike Jennifer Shahade and Drexel University chemistry professor and author Sally Solomon.
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Jennifer Shahade's father is Lebanese and her mother is Jewish.
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Jennifer Shahade's older brother, Greg Shahade, is an International Master.
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Jennifer Shahade earned a degree in comparative literature at New York University.
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Jennifer Shahade's writing has appeared in the LA Times, The New York Times, Chess Life, New In Chess, and Games Magazine.
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Jennifer Shahade is the former web editor-in-chief of the United States Chess Federation website and has hosted a monthly chess podcast, Ladies Knight, for the federation.
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In 2007, Jennifer Shahade co-founded a chess non-profit called 9 Queens.
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Jennifer Shahade is the host of the poker podcast the GRID, which she produces with her husband Daniel Meirom.
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Jennifer Shahade is a former coach for the training website Run It Once.
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Jennifer Shahade is a board member of the World Chess Hall of Fame.
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In 2018, Jennifer Shahade became the woman's program director at the US Chess Federation, which brings chess programming to thousands of girls in the country.
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Jennifer Shahade resigned from the US Chess Federation on September 6,2023.
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Jennifer Shahade claimed that the Federation treated her with "hostility instead of support" and that she was "constantly minimized or ignored" when she came forward with allegations of assault against GM Alejandro Ramirez.