Jacqueline Velez is a Community Project Coordinator for LiveWell Springfield, focusing on the Transforming Communities Initiative. She has a Liberal Arts Associate's degree from Bard College and comes to us with thirteen years of experience working in advocacy, organizing, and communications. She is the chair of the Hampden County Commission on the Status of Women & Girls, and in her spare time works on criminal justice and reentry issues. Jacqueline was a radio co-host when she lived in New York and the main host called her J-Breezy on-air once and was called that ever since.

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