Born in Kispiox, British Columbia, in the House of Geel of the Fireweed Clan[1] Jensen was "delivered by a medicine woman in her great-grandmother’s bedroom.
Jensen’s "early training began in the oral history tradition, learning the language (Gitksan), songs, legends, and customs from her parents and grandparents.
[4] She was a founding member of the ‘Ksan Village Association, the Society of Canadian Artists of Native Ancestry,[5] [Lattimer], s chairperson with the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Vancouver Support Group and served on the board of trustees of the National Museum of Nature in Ottawa [6] and Emily Carr University, among others.
Jensen’s cousin Lonnie Hindle developed the phonetic system for the Gitxsan language with Bruce Rigsby, an American linguist.
"Jensen's interpretation of the carvings and weavings by First Nations artists is centered on how the concept of metamorphosis relates to time, space, place and being.