Jan McInnis is an American stand-up comedian and professional speaker. McInnis specializes in comedy shows and humor keynotes for corporations, associations, and company events. Her act is clean and original, and it focuses on work, family and day-to-day life. She has performed at hundreds of conferences and professional events, for groups such as the Mayo Clinic, Anthem Blue Cross, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the American Bankers Association, and Pep Boys. McInnis was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Arlington, Virginia before moving to Los Angeles in 2000. She graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Communications. She was a disk jockey at Virginia Tech?s punk rock radio station, and played the drums in the marching band. She went on to work for the National Ocean Service, the National Academy of Sciences on the original ?Planet Earth? PBS television series, and several associations including a construction trade association and the Optical Society of America. She started her comedy career in 1994 working in comedy clubs throughout the county, and then moved into the convention market.