Boston's October Member of the Month Jackie Kenyon in May 2010, during the chapter's pre-launch gear fitting. Photo by John Deputy
Jacqueline Kenyon is a case manager for the women’s re-entry program at Boston Rescue Mission, a hairdresser for the past 23 years who now does so for the elderly, and Team Captain of the St. Francis House Back on My Feet Team in Boston.
She is originally from Concord, New Hampshire and was raised in an alcoholic home and moved to Boston in 2003 at which point her life fell apart. She relapsed and became homeless.
After incarceration, she made the decision to change her life patterns and joined Back on My Feet as one way to engage herself in the positive and the hopeful.
She has managed to break the cycle and shares the solution with others through advocacy work and speaking to groups. She lives at St. Francis House, works at Boston Rescue Mission, is active with AA facilitates an AA meeting every Tuesday in the women’s unit at South Bay. As a Back on My Feet runner she will be the first female team member on any of the national teams to run a marathon at the 2010 Marine Corps Marathon.
At Boston’s first Orientation 2.0, a forum to engage the community on the challenges and solutions of homelessness, Jackie spoke about her cycle of addiction and how she broke it.
[...] was honored earlier this month as Boston’s Chapter Member of the Month for October 2010. Watch her talk about her background here and below read about her experiences with homelessness [...]