Leadership

Jackie Jenkins-Scott – President of Wheelock College

On July 1, 2004, Jackie Jenkins-Scott became the 13th President of Wheelock College, a private college with a public mission to improve the lives of children and families. Jenkins-Scott received her B.S. Degree from Eastern Michigan University, a Masters of Social Work from Boston University School of Social Work, and completed a Post Graduate Research Fellowship at Radcliffe College.

In 2003, Jenkins-Scott received an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Education from Wheelock College when she served as the Commencement speaker. In addition to Wheelock, she holds Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Suffolk University, Northeastern University, Bentley College and Mount Ida College.

From 1983 until 2004, Jenkins-Scott served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Prior to joining Dimock, she held several positions with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Departments of Public and Mental Health. As a community leader, public health advocate and innovative administrator, she has been a nationally known figure for nearly thirty years.

Ceronne Berkeley Daly – Director of the Office of Pre-Collegiate and College Access Programs

Ceronne Berkeley Daly is the Director of the Office of Pre-Collegiate and College Access Programs at Wheelock College. Her unique role at Wheelock affords her the opportunity to develop and implement innovative pipeline programs connecting K-12 schools, higher education, and community organizations, businesses, and agencies.  She seeks to have Wheelock contribute to the transformation of the education pipeline for Boston Public School students. She engages strategic partnerships (both in schools and in the community) to develop and pilot comprehensive, transformational program models that will impact the current landscape of public school educational practice and delivery. 

In her short tenure at Wheelock College, she has designed a comprehensive urban teacher development program that was awarded one of the coveted four-year 1 million dollar TRIO Upward Bound grants. Prior to joining the college, Ms. Daly worked at the district level of the Boston Public Schools for eight years working with high school leaders and administrators. She was responsible for developing the initial high school restructuring framework that later evolved into Boston’s high school renewal program.

This was Ms. Daly’s second tenure working in the Boston Public Schools. Five years earlier she taught 9th graders and was an academic and college counselor.  She credits her years working in the Boston Public Schools with dedicated hardworking faculty and staff for her relentless focus on improving college access and success for Boston students. Before working in this capacity with Boston Public Schools, she attended graduate school and studied school reform initiatives both nationally and locally as a Senior Associate at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University.

Ms. Daly has over 20 years of experience working in urban education, supporting district leaders, school leaders, students and families to achieve excellence. She has experience in private and public higher education institutions, public, independent and charter schools, and independent education research institutes.

Ms. Daly earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Trinity College and her Masters of Education degree in Human Development and Psychology, with a concentration in Risk and Prevention, from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. She served as an Education Policy Fellow for Northeastern University at the Institute for Educational Leadership, Inc. in Washington, D.C. and has taught as an adjunct instructor in curriculum development and teacher education at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

She is a founding executive board member of the national organization – Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color and a board member of the Wheelock Family Theatre. She has been married to George R. Daly for 12 years and together they have an eight-year-old daughter Alexis and a two and a half year old son Jacob.