Geek (band)

Jenny Toomey
Born	Jennifer Gillen Toomey 1968 (age 49–50)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Musician Arts activist
Website	JennyToomey.com

Jennifer "Jenny" Gillen Toomey (born in 1968) is an American indie rock musician and arts activist.

Toomey is from Chevy Chase, Maryland, and later, Washington, D.C.

Toomey is a graduate of Georgetown University with a degree in philosophy.

Toomey was a member of the bands Geek, Tsunami, Liquorice, Grenadine, So Low and Choke, among others, and has also recorded under her own name.

In 1990, Toomey co-founded the Simple Machines record label with a housemate who left the project soon after. Toomey ran the label with Kristin Thomson from 1990 to 1998 out of their house in Arlington, Virginia. Along with TeenBeat Records and Dischord Records, Simple Machines helped document the D.C. punk and indie rock scenes. Tsunami was also greatly influential in the do it yourself (D.I.Y.) movement among the punk, grunge and indie communities. Among the artists released on Simple Machines are Tsunami, Grenadine, Franklin Bruno, Ida, and Scrawl, among others.

In 2000, Toomey founded the Future of Music Coalition, a Washington, D.C. think tank that translates the complex issues at the intersection of music, policy and law, aiming to help (primarily independent) musicians, including intellectual property rights, health insurance, and the effects of corporate consolidation of radio and the music industry. She was the founding executive director.

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