Jennifer is an award winning dance educator and freelance choreographer. She was the director of dance at Perry- Mansfield Performing Arts School for 13 years.   She has created works for many studios, high schools, performing arts and Universitites around the country. She taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder, University at Buffalo, Stony Brook University, the Symphony Strings on Mountain, Cincinnatie Ballet Summer Intensive and as a guest choreographer for the  Pacific Arts Dance Center's The Nut Cracker, and the White Wave Dance Festival in Brooklyn. NY.
Golonka is a Buffalo native and a longtime NYC resident. She has danced with the Jessica Lang Project, Hannah Khan Dance Company, Third Law Dance/Theater and Thang Dao Dance Company.  Other notable companies, the Battleworks Dance Company, Take Dance Company,Camille A Brown and Dancers, Peter Chu's CHUE This, Darrell Grand Moultrie and Nicholas Villeneuve.
Jennifer trained at the Martha Graham School for the Contemporary Dance and the Limon Institute.

She is a Teaching Artist at Arts Connection, and was featured in the January 2014 issue of Dance Teacher Magazine for her work on the DELLTA (Developing English Language Litracy Through the Arts) In 2013, Golonka founded the Luminary Dance Project, a workshop designed to provide dancers with a comprehensive artistic education while building their technique.