Jennifer van der Kleut (formerly Jennifer McBride) has been writing for Bay Area publications since 2004, when she graduated from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University. She was a full-time writer for Silicon Valley Community Newsgroup from 2004 to 2006, writing for newspapers such as the Los Gatos Weekly and Saratoga News, among others. She wrote the weekly history column "Los Gatos: Now and Then" for the Los Gatos Daily News throughout 2007, and was a contributing editor at South Bay Accent Magazine from 2008 to 2009. She has also lent her voice to many other publications such as the Los Gatos Weekender and the online Brizzly Guide.

Since the fall of 2010, Jennifer has been a contributing writer and editor for many Patch.com sites throughout Silicon Valley such as Palo Alto, Los Altos, Mountain View, Campbell, Redwood City, Menlo Park, Foster City and Half Moon Bay.

Since October of 2011, Jennifer has been working full-time for Milpitas Patch.

Jennifer lives in Sunnyvale with her husband, Alex and her two sons, Connor, born in Sept. 2007, and Oliver, born in May 2010.