Professor from my school (one of my program heads) on TLC?

My freshman year at Webster University I took a Non Verbal Communications class with a friend who was a senior. He was taking it because the professor was great, and he highly recommended her courses.

Gina Jensen turned out to be that professor, and the course blew me away. At the end of the semester, I had changed my major to the department the course was from: Speech Communications.

Gina and her husband Scott Jensen run the department together (not to mention the constantly award winning forensics team). They are excellent communicators and masters of socializing; not socializing like throwing parties and mingling, but really listening and understanding others (and yourself) to come to a shared meaning.

Personally, I think just about everyone could benefit from the Speech Communications program. With IMs and texts (and blogs, ha ha) no one speaks face to face, and so much meaning is lost. People forget how to read "between the lines," body language, or even facial expression. They don't realize how much a sound effect or song can completely turn around the meaning of what used to be just text. I realized how important context can be.

Anyway, enough about how great Gina Jensen and her work are; she, despite knowing how others judge so strongly on appearance including clothing, is a less-than-mediocre dresser herself.

Thanks to TLC and Webster's Forensic's Team (I'm sure), she will finally take a week of "me time," away from being a mom and wife and teacher and mentor and super woman, and get to practice what she preaches (as far as clothing goes, anyway).

Here she is on Show Me St. Louis being "ambushed" by Stacey and Clinton (I hope they aren't mean to her) from What Not to Wear. She has yet to take her trip to NYC and spend her $5,000, but the episode is slotted to air in February on TLC.

Good luck Gina, buy nice things for yourself (I'm sure you rarely/never do), and have fun!

Next time I see Gina Jensen, she better have a styling handbag, that's for sure.