Gloria Jackson-Leathers Senior Advisor to the President Gloria Jackson-Leathers is senior advisor to the president, community engagement at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. She is responsible for fostering and enhancing relationships between the Foundation and the diverse communities it serves. As a key advisor on matters related to community engagement, Jackson-Leathers provides vision, direction, and oversight to help advance the foundation’s community engagement initiatives. Prior to joining the Kauffman Foundation, Jackson-Leathers worked for many years in the banking industry as a bank examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and as a community reinvestment act officer with Commerce Bank of Kansas City. Jackson-Leathers holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration-management from Park College and a master’s degree in public administration from the Bloch School of Public Administration at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. She is a graduate of both the Kauffman FastTrac New Ventures program and the Kansas City Tomorrow program. She is a former commissioner of the Greater Kansas City Housing Authority and former board member of Visit KC as well as the Ewing Marion Kauffman School.