Jacqueline Martinez Garcel was born in Washington Heights in Manhattan, but her family moved back to the Dominican Republic when she was young. Her identity was sealed.
Editor's note: The Business Times annually selects 10 or more corporate and nonprofit leaders as part of our Most Admired CEOs program.As the daughter of first generation immigrants growing up in the predominantly Dominican Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, Jacqueline Martinez Garcel experienced the healing power of having a community to lean on, but also carried the weight of what she described as a daily struggle for equity.
Garcel’s childhood dream was to be a pediatrician, but her upbringing instilled her with a drive to create opportunities for her community that was hard to ignore. She is now the CEO of the Latino Community Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit on a mission to “unleash the civic and economic power of Latinos.”
“I knew that I didn’t want to sit at a doctor’s office and wait for people to get sick,” she said. “I wanted to work with people in the community that are improving all the factors that keep people healthy and more importantly, give people hope.”I was born in Washington Heights — it’s the best neighborhood. It’s a community of immigrants — it was a predominantly Jewish Cuban, quickly changing into a Dominican neighborhood.
You moved across the country to take on the leadership at Latino Community Foundation. What was that like for you?
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