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Gloria Yuh Jenkins (also credited as Gloria Y. Jenkins and Gloria Jenkins) is an American animation director, storyboard artist, and producer whose career in television animation spans more than three decades.1 She is best known in the Ghostbusters community for directing five episodes of Extreme Ghostbusters and serving as a storyboard artist on a sixth.1
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Jenkins began her career in the animation industry in the early 1990s as a prop designer.1 Her earliest known credits include work on the direct-to-video productions Happy, the Littlest Bunny and Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle (1994).1
She went on to work as a storyboard artist on Jumanji (the animated series, 1996) and Todd McFarlane's Spawn (1997) before joining the crew of Extreme Ghostbusters in 1997.1 From 1999 to 2000 she served as a production manager on the Dilbert animated television series.1 In 2002 she stepped into a producer role on Baby Looney Tunes for Warner Bros. Television Animation,1 and that same year she directed and produced the feature-length special Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure (2003), co-producing alongside Tom Minton.2
In the 2000s Jenkins expanded her storyboard work across a range of children's television properties, including Clifford's Puppy Days, Bratz: Genie Magic, The Batman, and Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot.1 She served as a storyboard artist on the SuperNormal television series in 2007 and contributed to the Monster High: Haunted TV movie in 2015.1
Her subsequent credits include a five-year run as a storyboard artist on Nickelodeon's Blaze and the Monster Machines, as well as work on Dora the Explorer, Wolfboy and the Everything Factory, Muppet Babies, and My Little Pony: Equestria Girls.3 Jenkins works in digital media using Cintiq hardware with Storyboard Pro and Photoshop. She has also worked as a children's book illustrator alongside her animation career.3
As of her most recent public profile she is based in the northeast Washington area and continues to work as a freelance storyboard artist.3
Jenkins joined Extreme Ghostbusters as both a director and a storyboard artist. Her directing credits on the series are:4
She also contributed storyboard work on the episode:
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IMDb, "Gloria Jenkins" (nm0420850), accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420850/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9
"Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure," Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-13, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Looney_Tunes%27_Eggs-traordinary_Adventure. Credits: directed and produced by Gloria Yuh Jenkins, co-produced by Tom Minton. Released February 11, 2003. Warner Bros. Animation. ↩
Gloria Y. Jenkins, official website, accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.gloriayjenkins.com/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3
Spook Central episode guides, accessed 2026-06-13: "The Crawler" https://www.spookcentral.us/sclib/extreme-ghostbusters-the-crawler (directors: Scott Wood, Gloria Jenkins); "Grease" https://www.spookcentral.us/sclib/extreme-ghostbusters-grease (director: Gloria Jenkins); "Slimer's Sacrifice" https://www.spookcentral.us/sclib/extreme-ghostbusters-slimers-sacrifice (director: Gloria Jenkins); "Glutton for Punishment" https://www.spookcentral.us/sclib/extreme-ghostbusters-glutton-for-punishment (director: Gloria Jenkins); "Heart of Darkness" https://www.spookcentral.us/sclib/extreme-ghostbusters-heart-of-darkness (director: Gloria Jenkins). ↩