Jacquie Jones
Revson Fellow 2008-2009
Executive Director
National Black Programming Consortium
Jacquie Jones is the Executive Director of the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), a national, non-profit media arts institution that funds, develops and produces content for public media in all its forms. A Peabody Award-winning writer, director and producer of documentary films, her credits include Africans in America and Matters of Race for PBS, From Behind Closed Doors: Sex in the 20th Century for Showtime and The World Before Us for the History Channel. She is a graduate of Howard University and Stanford.
Coming at a time when my nonprofit organization was on the verge of extinction, the Fellowship enabled me to cobble together a strategy for survival, while acquiring the skills, credentials, and self-confidence to begin the transformation of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions. Three years later, a New York State Community Development Financial Institutions Fund was established through my organization’s efforts. The fellowship year marked a turning point in my professional life; today, in the rear-view mirror, it remains a very prominent landmark and point of orientation.
