Jacqueline L. "Jackie" Allen is uniquely qualified in the development and management of not-for-profit organizations.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Temple University and later earned her MBA from Rutgers University with a concentration in Financial Administration.
Jackie had a successful twenty-year corporate career. She held managerial positions in the both the Accounting and Financial Systems Departments of The Prudential and Automatic Data Processing.

Leaving the business world to focus on her family and not-for-profit community, she was appointed to the Montgomery County Commission for Women and Families. Subsequently, she was elected to Board of Directors of Laurel House, a comprehensive domestic violence program for abused women and their children. Jackie has held almost every executive position there, including Board President, Advisory Board Chair and Gala Chair. She is also a member of the Board of Living Beyond Breast Cancer.

Jackie is an avid food and wine enthusiast. She has served on the National Board of the American Institute of Food and Wine, an organization founded by Julia Child and Robert Mondavi, and where she has been a long time member of the Executive and Finance Committees. She is also a member of the internationally renowned Delaware Valley Chapter of the Chaine de Rôtisseurs and their wine group, Société Mondiale du Vin. Jackie serves as member of the steering committee of the Central Coast Wine Classic. She has her utilized her wine knowledge to assist local charities in fundraising by serving on the wine committees for Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Philadelphia Chapter of the ALS Society.

Jackie is the mother of a young adult son with learning difficulties. She has been actively and directly involved in his continuing educational process.