Honoring Dr. Jesse Jackson and Dr. Nancy Lee Sànchez-Badillo
Cocktail Reception, Seated Dinner & Awards Program
Current at Chelsea Piers
Pier 59
Chelsea Piers
New York, NY 10011
Please join Kaplan Educational Foundation for an unforgettable evening as we celebrate sixteen years of creating pathways for high-achieving students of color to reach their full potential as four-year college graduates, industry leaders, and community change-makers!
For the first time in three years, we are thrilled to gather our community of supporters to honor Dr. Jesse Jackson, Head of Product for Firmwide Employee Experience for Integrated Help for JP Morgan Chase & Co. and a lifelong advocate for educational and workforce equity. We are also delighted to honor our former Executive Director, Dr. Nàncy Lee Sanchez-Badillo, an influential leader in the community college transfer system and a true agent of change in the lives of hundreds of Kaplan Leadership Program Scholars and Alumni.
"We hope you will join us on Wednesday, October 26th, from 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM to celebrate the achievements of students and help us usher in a new chapter of growth and impact for KEF!"
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Dr. Jesse Jackson serves as the Head of Product for Firmwide Employee Experience at JPMorgan Chase. His responsibilities include the global management and strategy development of the employee experience modernization and improvement focused function. This globally distributed high impact Integrated Help team supports more than 270,000 bank employees and retirees worldwide in addition to providing direct engagement to strategic vendors.
Jesse has been with the firm for over 25 years, joining the bank via the firm’s Management Development Program after completing five years of active duty in the United States Navy. He has held other global roles including firmwide head of Learning and Career Experience for JPMorgan Chase plus several national leadership roles within both Commercial Banking and Business Banking, serving as Client Service Executive for both lines of business. Jesse has also held various Consumer Banking management roles.
Jesse holds a Doctorate degree from New York University with a concentration in Leadership and Innovation. He also holds a Master’s degree from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, both with a major in Economics. He completed J. P. Morgan Leading through Execution and Leadership Edge training. Jesse also completed Silicon Valley Product Group’s Product Training Program, he holds a Six Sigma Quality Improvement Black Belt and a Total Quality Management Team Leader certification. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of BOLD (Black Organization for Leadership Development). He serves as a strategic advisor for HERE TO HERE, a not-for-profit focused on creating career pathways for disadvantaged youths. He is a board member to Education Trust a not-for-profit focused on education equity and is a guest lecturer at Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations program. Jesse resides in New York with his wife and son.
Dr. Nancy Lee Sánchez-Badillo has over 22 years of experience providing greater access to higher education, improving the college experience, and fostering leadership among low-income, under-represented and non-traditional students through collaborative partnerships and services that directly target factors affecting degree-attainment gaps.
Nancy is currently the Chief Opportunity Officer at Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. She was previously the Executive Director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation and was responsible for the design and implementation of the Kaplan Leadership Program, a community college to top 4-year college program that aims to prepare students for a lifetime of personal, financial, and socially-conscious professional leadership. Nancy's dedication to the Kaplan Leadership Program is a primary reason for 15 years of its great success helping high-achieving community college students reach their educational and career goals.
Nancy is also the author of Your 2018 Guide to College Transfer: 90+ School Profiles. Her own educational trajectory started at Kingsborough Community College, where she earned an Associate's degree in Early Childhood Education. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Education from Long Island University, a Master's degree in Sociology from Brooklyn College, and a Doctorate of Education from New York University. As a 2014 National Hispanic Executive Leadership Fellow, she completed an Executive Leadership Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Leadership Development Program at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC.
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