Jacquelyn Crawford was employed at Citicorp Mortgage for 18 years. She was a Senior Vice President in charge of Quality Operations, which included management of Performance Management, Training and Development, Customer Satisfaction and Quality initiatives. She also served as Operations Manager of Citicorp's Senior Executive Development Program.

Prior to her employment at Citicorp, Jacquie served on the Business Administration faculty of two Colleges: Colorado Women's College in Denver, Colorado where she was the Director of the Business Administration Department and the Weekend College Program, and The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she was the Director of the Women in Management Evening program. At both colleges, she also taught on the faculty in Business Administration.

Jacquie has published two books. One was her Master's degree research on “Women in Middle Management” which became the basis for the Women in Management Program at The College of St. Catherine and was used as a textbook at other colleges and universities. Her other book was a textbook for teacher education used in the Business Education Department at the University of Minnesota. She is currently working on a biography.

She holds Bachelor and Master's degrees from the University of Minnesota; she also holds a MAPS degree from Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri.

Jacquie has given lectures and workshops across the United States on topics such as performance management, leadership, management initiatives, time management, career development, and personal growth and development.

After leaving Citicorp in 1998, she formed her own management consulting company, "Insight/Out". Later, she began studying at Aquinas Institute of Theology and became a Chaplain working at both St. Louis University Hospital and St. Alexis Hospital. After that, she became the Business Manager at St. Alphonsus "Rock" Catholic Church in St. Louis, Missouri where she managed the day-to-day operations of the church, financials, personnel, and general office administration.

Jacquie has had her share of major health issues. In 1999, she suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm, given a 1% chance of survival, and through a miracle of God, she survived with minimal side effects. Five years later, to the exact date of her surgery, she mushed a team of 5 sled dogs across the Bering Sea and over the northern tundra of Alaska! After a pulmonary embolism (1999), open-heart surgery (2006) and two total knee replacements 2007, she joined a group of senior tap dancers and danced in the St. Louis Senior Olympics in 2007.

Jacquie is a single parent who claims her greatest blessings are her five grown children and five grandchildren. “Raising these children has been a privilege, honor and great fun,” she says! Her newest granddaughter was born on August 31 of 2009 and she is now providing day care for her! Jacquie’s children live in Missouri, Minnesota, California, Utah and Colorado. They are a close-knit family despite their remote locations. “God has been very, very good to me,” she states.

Jacquie has sponsored families in Guatemala for the past 25 years and has traveled there to work with these families. She has worked as a volunteer for the poor and most abandoned through special organizations. She has worked with Doorways and Food Outreach, residential and food distribution facilities in St. Louis, for those suffering with HIV/AIDS. Currently, she is involved in prison ministry and tutors at a grade school through an inter-generation tutoring program. She loves training her dogs and plans to do pet therapy with her three Chihuahuas---Charlie Brown, “Mini” Pearl, and Lucky Penny, a little rescue dog. Other interests include writing, tap dancing, music, theater, photography, and quilting. “It’s been a wonderful life,” she concludes.