Then & Now
Boston Business Journal

Glenn shares immigrant experiences in hopes of uplifting others

By Robin Washington – Special to the Journal
Jan. 24, 2020

Jackie Glenn grew up poor in Jamaica before moving to the U.S. to become a nanny, then to the Boston area to live with an aunt in Mattapan. “It was cold! No one looked like me. No one sounded like me,” she recalls. She went on to become a key executive at one of Greater Boston’s largest technology companies.