Jenese has served this community since June 2016. She was the first African American female meteorologist and the first to ever present a weather forecast in the Northeast Florida, Southeast Georgia market. She has reported for several local news stations and around the world while being featured on HLN, CNN, Al Jazeera and Crime Watch, among other networks. Jenese worked at WICD as its morning anchor for two years and at WCCU as an evening anchor and reporter where she and co-anchor with meteorologist Doug Quick to launch a local Fox affiliate. Two hours north of Champaign, Illinois, Jenese worked as an assignment editor and field producer for CBS 2 Chicago and the Local News Service. Before moving to Chicago, she was the evening anchor, reporter and producer for the 5, 6 and 10 o'clock evening news, for WABG in Greenville, Mississippi. Her on-air career began at WMOR in Tampa as a television host for a weekly entertainment show, MORE TV 32. Jenese's experience in journalism began at age 15, in her hometown, while interning at WDET in Detroit, a National Public Radio station. Then, she interned at a local radio station every year thereafter, before working as a paid apprentice for the Detroit Free Press. Jenese has a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of South Florida and a bachelor's degree in broadcast meteorology from Mississippi State University.