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Jewell Jackson McCabe is the founder of a national women’s advocacy organization - the National Coalition of 100 Black Women; a Presidential, Gubernatorial and Mayoral appointee; a motivational speaker; a business woman with a specialization in strategic communications and executive coaching who serves as director on a variety of public and private sector boards; and a consultant to major corporations, cultural and civic institutions.

As founder of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women (NCBW), Ms. McCabe organized 35 States and the District of Columbia in 10 months with a membership of over 7,000 women. NCBW was established in 1981 to engage professional black women dedicated to socio-economic change in a proactive advocacy network to meet their education and career needs and to facilitate their empowerment for access and opportunity in mainstream America.

Ms. McCabe’s focus was on strategic planning and institutionalization and methodology for the next generation of African American Women leaders. The NCBW Colloquy has generated significant research outcomes: a Louis Harris Poll, "A Survey of Leaders on Leadership Development and Empowerment for Black Women"; four commissioned research papers “Succession Planning: Inheriting the Legacy of Leadership”, by Paula Giddings; "From a Tiehold to a Foothold: Economic Status and Empowerment of Black Women”, by Julianne Malveaux; "Black Female Political Empowerment: A Plan for Self-Help," by Linda Faye Williams; and "A Critical Policy Issue: Meeting the Needs of Black Youth", by Lynn C. Burbridge; and a generational plan of action entitled "Inheriting the Legacy of Leadership: A 20-Year Blueprint for Black Women." During Ms. McCabe's leadership, NCBW also hosted an annual elegant awards ceremony "The Candace Awards" where Black achievers were recognized and featured to present positive diverse role models.

Ms. McCabe is a founding member of the National Congress of Black Women. She was also the first female candidate, with a recognized feminist ideology, on the “short list of four” for the presidency of the NAACP in 1993, becoming the first woman in 84 years seriously considered for chief executive officer of this Nations premiere Civil Rights organization - both The Washington Post (Op-Ed “Grass-Roots Glass-Ceilings”) and the New York Times (cover story Sunday Week in Review) featured Ms. McCabe as the front runner based on the McKinsey developed candidate selection point system.

Ms. McCabe has been a frequent guest political analyst on programs such as the Today Show, interviewed by Katie Couric, with New York Times op-ed columnist and senior writer for The New York Times, Frank Rich and former Republican National Committee Chair, Haley Barbour, analyzing, President Bush’s State of the Union Address, 2003, and The Charlie Rose Show. Ms. McCabe is featured in Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Brian Lanker’s “I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America.” Ms. McCabe was also featured with Corretta Scott King, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Rebecca Walker, and Race Gender Theory Law Professor Kimberly Crenshaw in a New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story on intergenerational leadership among African American Women.

Ms. McCabe was a participant in “The New Crisis Magazine’s” 2000 special issue roundtable of feminist’s leaders discussing W.E.B. DuBois’ progressive feminist views. She was elected to the board of the Women’s Forum in 1975 under the leadership of founding President Elinor Guggenheimer. As part of the campaign for New York City, the Women’s Forum joined with Jewell Jackson McCabe, President, Coalition of Black Women and Marife Hernandez, President, of the Conference of Puerto Rican Women in forming WUNY (Women United for New York) to promote unity and mutual support among the city’s female leadership.

Ms. McCabe is the recipient of numerous honors including the presentation of the North Side Center for Child Development’s Distinguished Service Award by the Founders, Drs. Mamie & Kenneth Clark, the noted psychologists who designed and developed the groundbreaking instrument used in “The Black-White Doll” diagnostic test - the findings were the cornerstone and the key factor in the 1954 landmark supreme court decision “Brown v. Topeka Board of Education” the case to desegregate the American Public School system.

Ms. McCabe was appointed by President Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and she was the first African American member of the Council. She also served on the Holocaust Council’s congressionally mandated Committee on Conscience. Governor Mario M. Cuomo appointed Ms. McCabe to the New York State Council on Fiscal and Economic Priorities. She was later appointed Chair of the New York State’s Job Training Partnership Council, the federal employment block grant, with a $300 million dollar annual budget to train New York State’s disadvantaged. Ms. McCabe was Chair from 1983 to 2005.

Ms. McCabe is a known activist and advocate for reproductive health rights. She co-authored with Essence Magazine editor-in-chief Marcia Ann Gillespie the “African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom” doctrine printed in The Boston Women’s Health Collective Our Bodies, Ourselves. A prominent speaker and advocate, Ms. McCabe delivered an address on behalf of microbicides research during the 2004 “March for Women’s Lives” rally in Washington, DC. That march followed the historic pro-choice rally on the Mall in Washington held in 1992. At that time she was asked by Billye Avery, feminist health activist and founder, of the National Black Women’s Health Project (NBWHP) to represent and speak on behalf of women of color.

In 1991, Ms. McCabe delivered the keynote address - a "Call for Women to Run & Win" - during the Center for the American Women and Politics national conference hosted by the Eagleton Institute of Politics. In 2007, Ms. McCabe laid out an inspiring plan for the future at the    2007 National NOW Conference.

In 1981 Ms. McCabe was the recipient of the Women’s Equity Action League (WEAL) Leadership Award, nationally recognized organization founded in 1968 and dedicated to improving the status and lives of all women primarily through education, litigation, and legislation. She attended Bard College and is a recipient of two Honorary Doctorates from Iona and Tougaloo Colleges. Ms. McCabe was also the first recipient of the Leadership Award presented by the 100 Black Men of America. She is also an honorary member of [|Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc].

Ms. McCabe serves on and has been a member of the following public and private sector boards: Reliance Group Holdings; the New York City Investment Fund, L.I.C. (a founding member, service from 1996-2001); The Wharton School of Business; Bard College; The Deloitte & Touche Diversity Advisory Board; Independent Film Makers Program (IFP); Alight.com; The United Hospital Fund; Lenox Hill Hospital; The New York City Partnership (a founding member from 1981-2001); Research America; New York City Commission on the Status of Women (1982-2002); and the New York Center for Children.

Jewell Jackson McCabe’s overriding objective as noted in articles from both Vogue and Fortune magazines “is to establish common ground for women of color between the public and private sectors for access and opportunity”. Currently, Ms. McCabe is the President of Jewell Jackson McCabe Associates – a multi-lingual management consulting firm specializing in strategic communications, executive coaching and training.