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Jenna Liu
BY WF STAFF, PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID STUCK
M oms looking to meet other moms
locally and carve out some space and
time for themselves now have that
option, thanks to Jenna Liu.

Founder of Sixx Cool Moms, a national
network of social groups for moms, Liu
launched its flagship chapter in Montgomery
County, where she has lived since 2017. Now
the network has 43 chapters in 17 states with
110,000 members, and Liu hopes to continue
to grow nationally.

“We are the modern village for cool moms
everywhere!” she says.

Born and raised in Staten Island, New York,
Liu eventually landed in the Washington, D.C.

area for college at American University and
hasn’t looked back. She met her husband,
Christian, a lifelong resident of Montgomery
County, and they now live in Germantown
with their daughter Poppy, 3.

Liu studied political science and was
working as a political account executive with
Fox5 DC until she decided to pursue Sixx Cool
Moms full time in November 2020.

“I told my husband around August of 2020
that I felt like I had something big with Sixx
Cool Moms, and I wanted to go all in,” Liu says.

From a small beginning—it started with just
six women at the first meet up—Liu is proud of
how far her idea has come. The extra “x” in the
name nods to the female XX chromosome—
representing the bond of womanhood she has
been able to foster.

Learn more at sixxcoolmoms.com.

Sixx Cool Moms is about
providing opportunities for
moms to meet other parents,
take time for themselves or
even network. What in your own
parenting journey inspired its
creation? being a first-time mom, but I knew how to be
Jenna. I didn’t want to lose me entirely in the
motherhood journey but wanted to add on
to who I already was. Sixx Cool Moms is for
In July of 2019, I was six months pregnant with moms who love their children but want time
my first child, Poppy. I realized quickly that away from their family to explore their own
although I had a wonderful support system interests and hobbies.

of friends, they all lived nearly a one-hour
drive away. It was important for me to build How do you balance work and
a community of mom friends that were local family life, and what makes it
and likeminded. I didn’t know much about easier?
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At the end of each day, I put my phone on the
charger upstairs and leave it there until the
next morning. Although the internet never
sleeps, what I am doing isn’t life or death, and
almost any issue can wait until the morning.

What do you love about
parenting? The humor of it. Recently, my husband was
away for the day, and it was just me and my
daughter. Poppy requested to watch The Lion