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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Local mental health services provider receives grant
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (KCAU) — Heartland Counseling Services announced Monday that it is the recipient of a nearly $500,000 grant from fellow non-profit organization, the Clarkson Institute. The funding will go toward expanding the South Sioux City-based mental health care services provider's school-based services into additional rural districts and growing its youth peer support program. Story continues below Top Story: 2025 graduation ceremonies for Sioux City Community School District Lights & Sirens: 'The First Musketeer': Sioux City Musketeers founder Gary Lipshutz passes away Sports: SportsZone Top 5 Plays of the Week (5-26-25) Weather: Get the latest weather forecast here 'This support from Clarkson Institute isn't just about about expanding services—it's about building healthier, more connected communities,' said Jennifer Jackson, the Executive Director with Heartland. 'We're proud to partner with an organization that sees and values the work being done on the front lines to support Nebraska's youth.' Heartland Counseling Services provides mental health and substance abuse services for people of all ages in all three of the Siouxland states. To learn more, you can find them online here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Business of Fashion
12-05-2025
- Business
- Business of Fashion
How I Became… Nars Cosmetics' Deputy General Manager of Global Marketing
Discover global job opportunities in beauty on BoF Careers today. When Jennifer Jackson began her career in New York, she held a PR assistant role that was 'definitely that 'paying your dues' job,' she told BoF's commercial features editorial director, Sophie Soar, during her Building a Career in Beauty LinkedIn Live session. Armed with a Journalism and Business degree at New York University, Jackson interned in PR at Saks Fifth Avenue. She then went on to work at a PR agency, collaborating with the likes of Net-a-Porter and Coach, before moving in-house at global fashion labels including Calvin Klein and Alexander Wang. In order to further her career in marketing, Jackson soon realised she would need to explore opportunities outside of fashion: 'I realised that a lot of the fashion companies that I would have probably wanted to work at were actually not based in New York,' she shared. 'I figured out I wanted to do a global role, versus a market role at that particular moment in my career.' Jackson pivoted to beauty — an industry she loved as a consumer but had no direct experience in — and began her journey at Nars Cosmetics as senior global marketing manager. 'I had to learn some of the mechanics behind it, but I picked it up, and I think that was really the key.' Today, as the company's deputy general manager of global marketing, she leads on strategic initiatives that elevate brand equity and deepen consumer engagement across diverse platforms. In her current role, she is responsible for international brand storytelling and increasing the awareness of Nars in global markets. Now, Jackson shares her career advice for breaking into beauty, and the key lessons she's learned from her 12 years in the industry — from leaning on your network to facilitate career moves, to the value of retail experience. For the full interview, watch our LinkedIn Live, Building a Career in Beauty with Jennifer Jackson. Jennifer Jackson, Nars Cosmetics' deputy general manager of global marketing. (Nars Cosmetics) What is key to breaking into beauty? I think first and foremost, just really loving the industry, really loving the product side and being interested. Don't become reticent to be on social channels or to embrace the new [ways of] marketing, [and] be prepared for constant change. Be willing to be scrappy and [to] not just accept the status quo. Always think about how you can change, how you can improve, how you can learn and really bring that passion through to what you're doing. How did you leverage your PR experience to work in-house? If anybody remembers New York PR assistant days, it was definitely that 'paying your dues' job, but it really helped [me] to learn the industry. It helped [me] to learn the network of assistants, everybody who was just starting out, but it also really taught [me] how to get things done. I learnt that every client is going through a different thing at a different time. [...] So I happened to be working on when Net-a-Porter was just launching in the United States, which would have been a very different situation than a heritage brand like Coach that was looking to reinvent itself a little bit. [...] It really allowed [me] to see what type of client I would like to work with if I went in-house, but supporting people at different places of their journey was super interesting, because some people needed more branding help; some people needed help on events; some people needed help with more typical PR placements. So again, it helps you to see [...] what facets are interesting to work on should you ever go in-house. Why and how did you transition into the beauty industry from fashion? I had always loved beauty as a consumer. [...] Nars was a perfect fit for me because it bridged what I loved about fashion, but also had the beauty component. I was, and definitely still am, into makeup [...] so [a career in beauty] was perfect for me. When I was interviewing, [they asked me questions like], 'You don't have any beauty experience, tell us why this could work?', and I think that it is very important to be open-minded about [...] figuring out what you can bring to the table. Don't become reticent to be on social channels or to embrace the new [ways of] marketing, [and] be prepared for constant change. So I could bring the branding, or the fashion angle. I knew there was a founder at the brand, which was important. If you think about my experience — I had all of that. A lot of the creative teams we worked with at Alexander Wang [were also the same] — so the Nars team also worked with [advertising agency] Baron and Baron. There were a lot of intersections. I just didn't necessarily have makeup experience, but I was a consumer. I could step into the role and know what we were talking about in a meeting. I had to learn some of the mechanics behind it, but I picked it up, and I think that was really the key. How can you lean on networking for a career switch? It should really start with your own personal network. [...] Is it talking to a friend that might have experience with [the company you want to work at]? Of course, you can do different things on LinkedIn, and that's important — so [start by] thinking about if there's a company you are interested in working at, type it in, see who you have in common there, even if it's a second-level connection. [...] Reach out to that person, see if they can set you up for an exploratory coffee or chat. Think about how you might want to attend events [the company] is [hosting] or, how could you interface with understanding [them better]. How would you advise gaining experience in the beauty industry? Putting [retail experience on your CV] is really helpful. [...] You'll be able to talk about insights into what sells well with consumers, like what if you worked at Sephora or Ulta [Beauty] or a department store — you would be able to share that insight in terms of ideas. [At Nars,] we speak with our field teams, we speak with consumers — they're the front lines. So that insight you can bring in terms of ideas is super important. You just never know exactly how your experience is going to lead you to your next step. For entry-level jobs, it can be hard — [hiring managers] will say they want one to two years of experience. That's not always easy, but if you can come in with the experience of working in a retail channel, well — there's your experience. You already have a wealth of competitive knowledge, consumer knowledge, and marketing tactics that you've seen. What does your day-to-day entail as deputy general manager of global marketing? It definitely depends on the day, but I think what's very exciting about my job day-to-day is I'm working on some things that are out right now — I might be looking at the performance of a new collection that we have out, seeing if we need to do something different on social [media]. [...] Are we taking real-time insight from what consumers are saying and applying that to something down the pipeline? Always think about how you can change, how you can improve, how you can learn and really bring that passion through to what you're doing. I'm also working on 2027 and 2028, looking at trends with the team and seeing what makes sense for the future, thinking about our campaigns. We also get to travel sometimes, which is really amazing — to spend time with the local teams and understand what their pain points are. To experience Nars all over the world and see how consumers are reacting and how we can help the teams, it feels really special, [particularly] when we can make a difference or make something successful together. What are some of your key learnings from your 12 years at Nars? I feel like I've had a lot of different roles here [over the past] 12 years, and it does not necessarily feel like that and that's because the industry has changed completely. We're relearning marketing every day, every year. You have to keep educating yourself and learning about the platforms and consumers. I know it sounds very obvious, but just listening and learning — absorbing information, asking questions. Also — raising your hand for a project where you could bring value, [rather than] someone having to ask you to do it. When you have different managers, they are looking for people to come to them and say, 'This is what we should be doing.' Everyone is really busy and so it is sometimes hard for leaders to know exactly what's what, but the reality is — [when] you're working your way through, you actually see where the big opportunities are. That's what I love about Nars, but also this size of company, is that people will come to me or I still go to my manager and say, 'We have to do this — this could be great,' and we do it. I also just think that being scrappy is really important. We get things done and I think it's something that the fashion industry and PR really taught me. There's always a way to make something happen.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Kentucky voters rally for government change in Capitol Rotunda
FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) — 'No laws about us without us' was the message that was sent on Friday afternoon from the League of Women Voters of Kentucky's Democracy Principle Rally. 'The democracy principle is that we, the people, have a right to participate in decisions that affect us,' said Dr. Jennifer Jackson, president of the League of Women Voters of Kentucky, addressing the crowd. Passionate would be one word to describe the voices ringing out in the Capitol Rotunda on the final day of the legislative session. Lawmakers override Gov. Beshear's abortion, maternal health veto 'We were paying attention! And we have come today to seek justice,' said Reverend James Todd Smith, chair of the Justice & Advocacy Commission of the Kentucky Council of Churches. Those at the rally were seeking justice for the issues that mean the most to them. 'Federal government, federal parks, social security, Medicaid for people in Kentucky who need Medicaid… I mean, it's just everything. Everything,' said rallygoer Roberta Wolgast. Fellow rallygoer Jamie Miller added, 'Healthcare, education, Medicare, and social security—which is not an entitlement; we worked our entire life for it, we were not given anything.' Among the issues, one of the biggest was fast-tracking bills. The rally highlighted six that leaders said are some of the worst examples of legislation that received short shrift in debate and public input. Becky Jones, Vice President of the League of Women Voters of Kentucky, said, 'We're not pointing this out because we didn't get our way. We're pointing this out because the public didn't get its say.' Rev. James Todd Smith added in his address to the crowd, 'I dare say that they [legislators] knew that their actions were an abuse of the legislative process. Because no one who believes their actions to be just or righteous does them under the cover of darkness.' This Kentucky Airbnb is among the most wishlisted in the world Kentucky voters rally for government change in Capitol Rotunda Kentucky mother's 33-year sentence for child's fentanyl overdose death stands Even though the general assembly has the votes to override his objections, some people at the rally said that as the session wraps up, they're looking forward to seeing the governor veto a lot of legislation. They said what lies ahead for them is a year of working toward the change they want to see. This rally was just one step in that journey. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
League of Women Voters stages protest in KY, urges Congress to ‘protect your constituents'
Against a backdrop recalling the suffragist movement's work in securing women's voting rights, the League of Women Voters staged a protest ahead of President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. The nonpartisan organization wanted to 'provide a space of community for people to not feel so alone and reconnect with hope,' Jennifer Jackson, president of the League of Women Voters of Kentucky, said in an interview. 'People may have taken for granted their rights,' she said, and now, many are feeling overwhelmed by 'the erosion of government institutions that we've relied on for many years.' The League of Women Voters of Kentucky hosted three Light For Our Democracy protests around the state Tuesday night, and similar events were held around the country. The Lexington protest was staged in front of the suffragist statue at Mill and Vine streets. During the event, excerpts were read from a Feb. 14 letter the national League of Women Voters sent members of Congress, calling on them 'to exercise your authority to protect the rule of law, defend the Constitution, and end the overreach by the executive branch of government, which is surely leading to harm for millions of Americans. 'We demand that you honor your oaths and protect your constituents.' They cited the Trump administration's attempt to end birthright citizenship, the reduction in the federal workforce, pausing the distribution of federal funds already allocated by Congress and giving non-elected citizens access to government systems as examples of executive overreach. 'So far, the League has seen limited action or response from members of Congress to assert its constitutional authority under Article I to protect our system of checks and balances, the rights of Americans, or democracy itself. Congress must do its part to ensure that our great democracy is preserved and safeguarded,' the letter stated. Dikiea Elery, pastor of East Second Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), told those in attendance that it seems as if 'with every stroke of the pen, more calamities befall us.' 'We are interconnected, and what happens for one always circles the block' and affects everyone, she said, adding later, 'Let us not give in to fear, discrimination and injustice. ...I believe that love will win.' Jackson urged attendees to register to vote, volunteer at the polls and advocate for policies protecting democracy by contacting their elected representatives. 'Democracy is not a guarantee. It is a right that must be defended,' Lexington artist Erica Tilford told the crowd, as they raised candles high. Tilford said democracy fails 'when the people forget their power.' 'Let us go forward with courage, with purpose and an unwavering belief that ... democracy is worth preserving.'
The Guardian
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘We're much stronger than we think': the Girl Gangs of all ages grappling on stage
'Find a new partner and have a go at frogging,' says Jennifer Jackson to the group of women assembled around her. They all drop into squats and start pushing each other's knees, trying to make their opponent fall over. On a rainy Saturday afternoon in south London, the women, wearing sweatpants and smiles with giddy energy, are learning some judo and wrestling moves, how to flip each other's bodies over on a mat, and the basics of defence through a game called Sticky Hands. 'I liked the grappling on the floor,' says one of the group, 26-year-old Becky. 'I couldn't stop giggling while we were doing it.' Jackson, a calm presence at the centre of the room, was a teenage judo champion. She's also a performer, theatre maker and movement director, who has worked on shows including I, Joan at Shakespeare's Globe, Cowbois at the RSC and her solo show Endurance, about ultrarunning and resilience, which landed at the intersection between theatre, dance and sporting spectacle. Today she's training up a Girl Gang, which will form part of the cast for her show WrestleLadsWrestle, which premiered last year in Manchester and is embarking on a tour. In each venue she forms a new amateur cast, assembling women in Sheffield, Cambridge and this group in London. Much in the same way Buffy the Vampire Slayer activated all the potential slayers at the series' climax, rather than keeping power for herself, Jackson aimed to show all women their potential. 'I wanted a real cross-section, as if somebody who's working in accounts suddenly heard the call and they left the office and kept walking and landed in the theatre and ended up on stage.' One of the new Girl Gang, Ece, 22, admits: 'I was far out of my comfort zone. It's not very often that you go round pushing people. But it was good. I did feel empowered.' 'We're much stronger than we think we are,' says Jackson, talking about how women can discover how to use their own weight, their centre of gravity and the huge amount of power in their legs to stand their ground, rather than heed society's messages 'to be slimmer and slimmer and reduce our body size and our visibility in the world'. And also just to have fun. 'Wrestling and rolling around on the floor and getting carried away, I just really love that,' says Jackson, 'and it feels like a rebellious thing to do still, which it shouldn't be.' The story of WrestleLadsWrestle comes from a personal memory, when Jackson was growing up in the Midlands and witnessed her Bolivian mother being racially abused in a checkout queue. She remembers her 4ft 11in mum shrinking in the presence of a tall, older man. 'My memory is of her making herself invisible,' says Jackson. 'It was a moment of powerlessness.' It wasn't long after that that Jackson's mum sent her and her siblings to a dojo to learn judo. 'She gave her children the gift of self-defence, or the gift of violence, however you choose to look at it.' The show Jackson has made is in part wish fulfilment, an expression of all the times she imagined fighting back like a mini superhero, the clever things she should have said; it's also a feminist battle cry and 'a really joyful reclamation of space, and this memory'. But it's also about memory itself, and how our black-and-white narratives often aren't all they seem. Teenage Jackson never took her fighting skills outside the dojo – 'I was actually really quiet at school, but in competition I was really confident' – but she does remember specialist self-defence teachers coming to the judo sessions. All the men would go off and do weight training while the girls would have a workshop on how to convert their judo skills into something they could use in a real-life attack. Everyone took that to be completely normal: the onus on women to defend themselves rather than men not to attack women. Through judo, Jackson learned to evaluate risk, she says. And her training was hugely formative in many ways. 'I got to learn how to use my body beyond the aesthetic,' she says. What mattered was what her body could do, not what it looked like. 'I also got a real sense of the direct correlation between the work you put in and the mastery of things. I think dancers and musicians also feel that. For acting, it's more nebulous.' What Jackson wants to give the women in her Girl Gangs is a chance to play out a version of themselves they haven't inhabited before. The age range across the different cities is wide, with some women in their 60s. They all gave themselves wrestling names. 'One called herself the Granny Grappler,' says Jackson. 'I'm just loving it for her. She's really strong and capable and brilliant. And another of our over-60s called herself the Ovarian Barbarian. Hilarious!' WrestleLadsWrestle is at the Playhouse, Sheffield, until 15 February; Battersea Arts Centre, London, 4-8 March; and Cambridge Junction, 19-20 March
