Jennifer Cannon

Jennifer Cannon is a New Jersey-based writer with bylines at Business Insider and Today. Her children's book, a first of its kind social media guide for kids published in 2014 and blurbed by Barbara Corcoran, led to dozens of television appearances. Jennifer has also penned a young adult novel based on real events in the life of her colorful Armenian grandfather and her experiences growing up with him. A California native, Jennifer always dreamed of opening her own taco shop and, as a restless mom of two young kids, started her own catering business, West Coast Burrito Co. According to Ancestry.com, Jennifer is a distant cousin to Abraham Lincoln, through her maternal great-grandmother Martha Lincoln. Jennifer knows her way around a cast iron skillet—and the proper way to clean it.