Jacqueline is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Women and Welfare. She has more than twenty-years of combined experience, education, and training as a manager, trainer, facilitator, counselor, and business consultant. During that time she worked closely with community providers around Cultural Diversity and other work related issues.

Dr. Phillips-Farr is a part-time visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus, part-time faculty and administrator at Bristol Community college in New Bedford, and a private consultant/ trainer for the New England College of Finance in Boston

In 1998, she co-developed the curriculum for the Financial Services Academy, one of the most creative, successful recruiting and training programs in the financial services industry. She has remained at the academy as a co-facilitator and trainer. She has also held adjunct faculty positions at the New England College of Finance, Lesley College, since 1997.

Dr. Phillips-Farr was a speaker and a panel member for the Private Bar Involvement
Project on Domestic Violence. Her topic was “Family Violence and It’s Impact on Children.” She participated in the Jane Doe Safety Fund’s Seminar Series. She was instrumental in assisting in the development of the model guidelines for a child advocate
position and a domestic violence specialist to become part of the staffing at the Department of Social Services and the Battered Women’s shelters.

She was a member of Governor William Weld’s Blue Ribbon Commission’s sub-committee on Minority Affairs and co-authored the plan adopted by the commission and the governor. In the spring of 1995, she was a panel member and participated in the Office for Children’s African American Professional Development Focus Group, followed by a group discussion with the commissioner of the Office for Children.

She has served as Co-chair of the Greater New Bedford Community Health Network.
Presently she is preparing workshop presentations for several community agencies in
Southeastern Massachusetts and community schools in the Greater Boston area.

Dr. Phillips-Farr received her undergraduate training at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and her graduate degree in education from Cambridge College. She recently completed her doctoral studies at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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