Jena Nardella is the middle child of three, with a younger brother, and an older sister who died at 11 months of age due to a congenital heart defect.
Throughout her time as an undergraduate student, she came to realize her focus should not be on nursing, but rather political studies in order to pursue the dreams she hoped to conquer.
At one lecture in particular, she met the speaker named Dr. Steve Garber who later spoke with her on her future aspirations and gave her the chance to reach out and seek further support in making those dreams reality.
Through these visits and lots of brainstorming came the start of their co-founded non-profit, Blood: Water, and more importantly their main purpose, the project One Thousand Wells.
[3] At age 22, Nardella moved to Nashville, Tennessee in order to continue pursuing the dream of growing and creating Blood: Water with Jars of Clay, who were all from this area.
On top of writing her own novel, One Thousand Wells: How an Audacious Goal Taught Me to Love the World Instead of Save It, published in August 2012, she has contributed to many other relevant publications.