Patricia Divine-Jackson

Patricia Divine-Jackson is originally from Liberia, West Africa, and trained as a medical doctor in Ob/GYN and Family Medicine in Liberia, England, and the United States. Her parents were educators. Providentially, she found herself working for some time in the inner city of Philadelphia in foster care and adoption. In this role, she observed that the many parents she served were shut out of meaningful productivity in society because of poor education, while their children were being left behind academically. She calls these our Shut Out and Left Behind neighbors. Patricia is a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order. She has a passion for the education of her fellow blacks and believes that a good education with strong Biblical underpinnings is the solution to many problems in our inner cities.