Adrienne Bitoy Jackson

• Project Executive

  Chicago Housing Authority

• Project Manager and Senior Manager of Marketing and Outreach Senior Manager of Marketing and Outreach

  Chicago Housing Authority

• Assistant Director of Resource Development

  Chicago Housing Authority

• Member, Professional Development Committee

  National Asssociation of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO)

• First Vice President, Chicago Chapter

  National Forum for Black Public Administrators

• Active Member

  Project Management Institiute, Inc.

• Member

  Musuem of Contemporary Art

• Founding Member, LincolnNet Steering Committee

  Governor State University South Metropolitan Regional Leadership Center

• Parlamentarian, Board of Directors (past)

  National Association of Black Journalists-chicago

• Senior Public Service Adminstrator

  State of Illinois

• Social Service Planner IV

  State of Illinois

• Certification of Election

  National Forum for Black Public Adminstrators

• Certified Senior ATODA Prevention Specialist

  Illinois Alcohol and Other Drug Addiction Professional Certification Association

• Project Management Professional

  Project Management Institute Inc

• Certificate of Completion, Executive Education Innovations in Governance Program

  Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

• Master of Science in Education, Adult Education

  Northern Illinois University

• Certificate in NonProfit Management, Nonprofit Management Program

  Institute for Metropolitan Affairs, Roosevelt University

Adrienne Bitoy Jackson has extensive experience in publc service administration and nonprofit management, which includes municipal corporations, faith based and educational institutions, community based and professional/volunteer organizations. For the past eight years she has been a valued employee of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), most recently managing federally funded technology projects, i.e. U.S. Departmentof Commerce/NTIA Technology Opportunity Program, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Public Housing Neighborhood Newtorks, and is currently involved with helping to establish a cross boundary Enterprise Case Management system between the Authority and the City of Chicago.

While the Authority's Assistant Director of Resource Development, she was personally credited with raising more than 10% of the Chicago Housing Authority’s targeted $50 million in new resources in support of the housing agency's Plan for Transformation.

From 1990 to 1994, Ms. Jackson served as the Director of Prevention Programs for the Wells Community Initiative, a public/private housing demonstration partnership that included the Ounce of Prevention Fund, Chicago Housing Authority, Centers for New Horizons, the Metropolitan Planning Council, Illinois Department of Alcohol and Substance Abuse and the residents of the Ida B. Wells Public Housing Development. In this capacity, she interacted and collaborated with community groups, social service organizations and government agencies to facilitate the development and implementation of alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention programs funded by the Illinois Department of Alcohol and Substance Abuse for the Family Development Center and various private foundations. Ms. Jackson is considered a special populations' expert with more than fiften years of experience in working with public housing communities/issues. She served on peer review committees for the Chicago Department of Public Health Office of Substance Abuse Policy, the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, as a TIP advisor for SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and as one of four Master Trainers for the State of Illinois Outcome Based Planning for ATODA.

Prior to her involvement with the Wells Community Initiative, she was selected to serve as the Community Liaison/Research Assistant for the Regional Employment Network, a state sponsored pilot project funded by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity that was administered by Governors State University Department of Administration and Planning. This program provided assessment and referral services at no cost and through 78 volunteer sites to 3500 community residents in Illinois’ southern Cook, Will and Kankakee Counties.

Other public sector distinctions include serving as:
-the City of Chicago’s Assistant Director for the “Hire the Future”- Private Sector Initiative,
-an Evaluator for the Chicago Board of Education’s “Hispanic Student Drop-Out Program”,
-a Professional Organizer for the Calumet Community Religious Conference/Developing Communities Project (Archdiocese of Chicago, Deanery 11 ),
- the Chicago Metropolitan Director of the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies,
-a Policy/Program Assistant for the Kids Public Education Policy Project,
-the Prevention Director for the Ounce of Prevention Fund, and
-Prevention Supervisor for the BRASS Foundation, Inc.

Her years of private sector experience also include the fortune 500 companies of Continental Illinois National Bank –International and Correspondent Banking Departments (now Bank of America) and Inland Steel Industries-General Services Division. Additionally, she manages her own consulting firm, Heuristics Marketing Consultants which specializes in marketing, organizational and program development with nonprofit organizations. Other affiliations include: the American Association of University Women, , Kennedy School of Government Executive Education's Harvard Alumni, Northern Illinois University Alumni Association, Mercy Al