Jenni-lee is currently lecturer in scenography at the Centre for Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Cape Town. She was at Rhodes University for her undergraduate and honours studies and worked with the First Physical Theatre company, before obtaining her MFA in theatre design from Tulane University in New Orleans. Returning to South Africa, Jenni-lee lectured in theatre design in the School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg until 2017. She is a fellow of the Ampersand Foundation and a Naledi award winning theatre designer and artistic director of Flying House, an organisation dedicated to designing spaces that help people connect, create, innovate and grow.