Biography of jacqueline grant
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Jacqueline’s love of family history unearths truths around our lives
Jacqueline Grant loves story-telling — not the mighty battles of empires and kings — but the wonderful human tales of everyday lives.
She remembers the very moment that this incredibly rich strand of personal memoir first presented itself.
“It was the time of my father’s funeral; and I went back home, and I was sitting with my mother and her sisters and cousins; I was there, and they started to talk about the early days as single girls, and I thought, ‘these are amazing stories’,” Jacqueline recalls.
“That was a definitive moment when I realised what amazing lives these people have lived,” she added.
Growing up in Wagga Wagga, she was originally encouraged to study pharmacy to continue the family business (her father owned one of the southern city’s longest-established pharmacies), before gravitating towards her first love, literature.
“I trained as a high-school teacher — after three years of pharmacy at the
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Jacqueline Grant
Speaker
PRINCIPAL, ABINGWORTH
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Jackie has more than 10 years of scientific, research and business development experience. She joined Abingworth in November 2018 and will work with the team in the Boston, London and Menlo Park offices to evaluate new opportunities and support existing venture investments.
Previously, Jackie was a Senior Associate at SV Health Investors. She was formerly in the Business Development Group at Genentech with primary responsibility for partnering activities in neuroscience. Her transactions span a broad spectrum of deal structures and therapeutic areas, including technology and platform in-licenses and research collaborations. Jackie has a PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford School of medicin and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Jacquelyn Grant
Alchemist, Activist, and Bestselling Author of Do Better and All I Need to Be
Rachel Ricketts (she/they) is a globally renowned spiritual activist, alchemist, and award-nominated author of the international instant bestseller Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy, which was named one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s 10 Books to Pick of 2021 and Book Riot‘s 12 Essential Books About Black Identity and History. Her other work, a mindfulness picture book titled All I Need to Be, was chosen as a Read With Jenna 2024 Jr Summer Reading List pick for kids and inner kids alike.
Hailed as a revolutionary offering and called “groundbreaking” by Good Morning America, Do Better addresses inequity from an intersectional and spiritually aligned perspective. Part memoir, part actionable guidebook for anyone & everyone, Do Better illustrates h