Biographical Sketch of President Deborah C. JacksonDeborah C. Jackson became the fourth President of Cambridge College in 2011, bringing to the institution over 30 years of leadership expertise across a number of Boston's leading institutions. Ms. Jackson assumed this role with a commitment to advance the mission of the College: to provide access to academically excellent, time-efficient and affordable higher education for adults for whom these opportunities may have been limited or denied. Her commitment to the social justice imperative of higher education is evidenced by her efforts to advance the college's ongoing commitment to diversity and its recognition as one of "America's Top 100 Graduate Degree Producers" as noted by Diverse Issues in Higher Education Magazine. Cambridge College's School of Management ranked third in awarding master's in business/commerce degrees to African-American students, higher than any other private, non-profit college in the nation. Cambridge College has been designated a Military Friendly School and is a participant in the Yellow Ribbon Program which helps U.S. veterans attend college. Prior to joining Cambridge College, Ms. Jackson served for nearly a decade as CEO of the American Red Cross of Massachusetts, one of the nation's largest Red Cross units. Prior positions include her role as Vice President of the Boston Foundation where she managed its $50 million grant and initiatives program and Senior Vice President at Boston Children's Hospital overseeing its ambulatory and primary care services. Ms. Jackson began her career at Abt Associates, one of the nation's top global research and consulting firms, where she began as a policy analyst and consultant and advanced to the position Director of the Health Care and Income Security Group. Ms. Jackson has served and continues to serve on numerous commissions, task forces and boards including; Co-Chair of the Mayor's Task Force to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care; Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and the American Red Cross National Diversity Advisory Council. In the field of education and higher education she has served on the boards of the American Student Assistance Corporation, the nation's first student loan guarantor agency; Roxbury Community College, Boston College Carroll School of Management Advisory Board, and Milton Academy. She currently serves on the boards of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts; the American Council on Education's Commission on Education Attainment and Innovation and the National Association of Corporate Directors/New England Chapter. She is a member of the board of directors of Eastern Bank and the Eastern Bank Foundation and John Hancock Investments. Ms. Jackson has been the recipient of numerous awards including being named as one of the 2017 Boston Business Journal's Power50, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Pinnacle Award for Achievement in Management, Boston Magazine's "100 Most Influential Women in Boston," El Planeta Newspaper's "100 Most Influential People for Latinos," and she has been inducted into the Women's Business Hall of Fame. She was a Barr Foundation Fellow; a Senior Fellow at Boston University's Graduate School of Business/Institute for Non-profit Management and Leadership; and was a Fellow of the British-American Project of Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies. She has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Curry College and has been inducted into Sigma, Beta, Delta, the national honor society of Business, Management and Administration.