Diana Jenkins Biography
Diana Jenkins is a philanthropist and entrepreneur from the United States. She made her first appearance in Bravo’s new ‘RHOBH’ season 12 trailer.
How old is Diana Jenkins? – Age
She is 49 years old as of 2022. She was born in 1973 in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina.
Diana Jenkins Family – Education
Jenkins is the eldest child in a middle-class Bosniak family of two. Her father was an economist, and her mother was an accountant. She grew up in Yugoslavia’s concrete-block apartments during the communist era. She studied economics at the University of Sarajevo, but the outbreak of war in 1992 forced her to flee and spend more than a year as a refugee in Croatia before emigrating to London.
Diana Jenkins and Asher
She announced her engagement to singer-songwriter Asher Monroe on RHOBH in 2022. The couple welcomed a daughter, Eliyanah Monroe, in 2020.
Is Diana Jenkins married? – Husband
She married Roger Jenkins, a prominent executive at Barclays Bank, in 1999. The couple met at the Barbican gym, where Jenkins was living after his divorce from his first wife, a banker at Barclays. They had two children together before divorcing.
Diana Jenkins Neuro
Sanela founded and launched the Neuro line of functional beverages in 2009, based in Sherman Oaks, California, where she currently serves as President and CEO.
Diana Jenkins DEmpire
Jenkins is the founder and CEO of D Empire Entertainment, a full-service music label that represents both emerging and established artists through traditional and innovative media strategy, branding, publicity, recording, distribution, and licensing.
Diana Jenkins Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of US$300 million.
Diana Jenkins Book
Sanela published “Room 23,” a photography book shot by Deborah Anderson. Many of the celebrities in the book, including George Clooney and Elton John, are friends of Jenkins. The book’s proceeds benefit a number of charitable programs.
Diana Jenkins Career
Jenkins founded The Irnis Catic Foundation in 2002 to honor her brother, who was killed during the Bosnian War. The foundation provides critical funding to the University of Sarajevo’s medical facilities. Diana Jenkins received the Center for Peace and Multi-Ethnic Cooperation’s Peace Connection award in 2009.
Jenkins was honored at the Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina Gala in Washington, D.C. on May 5, 2018 for her ongoing support and philanthropic activities in the country. Jenkins, along with George Clooney, hosted an A-List fundraiser in Mayfair London in 2008 for Darfur victims, raising over £10 million.
In August 2008, she founded the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles. The clinic focuses on legal and political advocacy, as well as documentation. It is the western United States’ first endowed program on international justice and human rights.
Jenkins and Richard Steinberg co-founded the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project in 2009. In Eastern Congo, they co-hosted the Sanela Diana Jenkins Clinic on Gender Violence. The Clinic established the Restore the Village Project, which has carried out a series of humanitarian interventions in villages affected by mass rape attacks and is carefully studying the effects of these interventions to determine how best to help communities in need and better understand the phenomenon of mass rape. YouTube: “The Sanela Diana Jenkins Clinic on Gender Violence in Eastern Congo.”
Jenkins and actor Sean Penn founded the Jenkins-Penn Haitian Relief Organization immediately after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti to deliver hospital supplies and medical care to thousands of displaced Haitians. She compared Haiti’s long-term recovery to that of Bosnia and Herzegovina, emphasized the importance of basic humanitarian aid, and argued that the US military should not leave the country too soon.
Jenkins posted bail for former Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina President Ejup Gani, who was detained in London on a Serbian extradition request in March 2010. The Elton John AIDS Foundation recognized Sanela with the Enduring Vision award for her AIDS activism.