Jackie Jenkins-Scott, President of JJS Advising, is a nationally recognized leader with more than four decades of experience in senior and executive leadership positions in public health, higher education, and corporate and nonprofit boards.  She is widely recognized as a transformational leader, helping individuals and institutions achieve high performance and strategic results.

 

Jackie Jenkins-Scott served as Interim President of Roxbury Community College (RCC) from February 2022  to June 2024.  Jenkins-Scott prioritized strengthening the institution's academic programs, administrative infrastructure, and community presence while preparing the organization to recruit a permanent president. In her short time as Interim President, Jenkins-Scott’s accomplishments were many included leading RCC’s 50th Anniversary campaign, which generated $6.5M in donations, nearly doubling RCC’s enrollment, launching the Reimagining Culture Committee, and preparing the College for a successful accreditation visit in Fall 2024.   

 

Prior to joining  RCC, Jenkins-Scott served for twelve years as president of Wheelock College (2004-2016). Under her leadership, Wheelock added new areas of study including cross-disciplinary, international, and online programs, increased undergraduate enrollment by over 50 percent; and representations of ethnically and differently-abled student by 40 percent, constructed three new buildings and nearly doubled the endowment. 

 

Jenkins-Scott served as President and CEO of Roxbury, Massachusetts’s  Dimock Community Health Center for 21 years (1983-2004).   Under her leadership Dimock emerged from the verge of bankruptcy to become one of the largest and most successful community based health and human service institutions in Massachusetts providing excellent and sustainable benchmark  integrated comprehensive community based health and human services.

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Jenkins-Scott has served on many nonprofit, corporate and advisory board including The Boston Foundation, The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, Tufts Health Plan and Tufts Health Plan Foundation, Century Bank, WGBH, The Boston Plan for Excellence, National Board of Jumpstart, The Council on Social Work Education, and The National Board of the Center for Community Change.  

 

Jenkins-Scott received her B.S. from Eastern Michigan University, a Master of Social Work from Boston University School of Social Work, and completed a Post Graduate Research Fellowship at Radcliffe College.  She has received six Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Northeastern University, Suffolk University, University of Massachusetts Boston, Bentley University, Mt. Ida College and Wheelock College. 

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