Jackie’s bilingual and bicultural background supported her work in both deaf and hearing businesses. Today, she is a real estate broker selling residential properties with a white glove company, Corcoran, in Manhattan. Since the pandemic, she’s reentered the entertainment field as an actor after a hiatus of more than 10 years through Deaf Broadway, on zoom. She is currently working on a handful of creative projects.

Born to deaf parents and raised in Brooklyn, New York, American Sign Language was her first language. Jackie’s professional life experiences bridging deaf and hearing worlds helped her understand the internal workings of corporations and in non-profits, in education for the deaf, law, and in businesses. She travelled to Nigeria where she volunteered and taught theater for six months at the school for the deaf in Ibadan. She received certification training in diversity and inclusion and coaches clients privately.

As the person who strategized and promoted the Deaf President Now movement to victory, she is at the top of her game paving way for new directions between diverse groups so that they can work together. Being bilingual and bicultural, she understands how differences can polarize and how critical it is to create a safe space to reconcile differences. Jackie has produced theater and film, one of which is the Academy Award nominated documentary, SOUND AND FURY (2000). Today, she is writing a book, a memoir.