Jennifer Moberg Pforte

Jennifer (Moberg) Pforte is a violinist-at-large, currently residing and working in Hong Kong.

She was the Head of Strings at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) from 2014-2016, where she became sensitised to the challenges of cultural sustainability in post-conflict and refugee-sending countries. She now works in the humanitarian aid and development sector, while still remaining an active advocate for teaching, sharing, and performing music as a cultural bridge.

Jennifer is the Founder and former Managing Director of KinderU Suzuki Music Academy, the first Suzuki school in Hong Kong. She is still a regular clinician at workshops in Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and is a regular teacher at the AVS Suzuki school in Bangkok, Thailand, where she also was a volunteer teacher at the Immanuel Music School, which provides free music instruction to children living in the Khlong Toey slum.

Ms. Jennifer holds a BA in Music from Houghton College, and MA in International Development- Forced Migration and Refugee Studies from Chulalongkorn University. She is currently the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Dignity Institute, a multi-disciplinary legal NGO, providing legal services and representation integrated with pyschosocial support for the city’s most vulnerable.