SkillsUSA Helps Improve Quality of Nation's Future Workforce
LEESBURG, Va., Oct. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Jacqueline (Jackie) Walker, executive director of SkillsUSA Ohio, was recently elected to serve as an education representative on the SkillsUSA Board of Directors.
"It is my honor to serve as an education representative on the SkillsUSA board of directors," Walker said. "I am looking forward to working with the board and staff to help SkillsUSA continue to empower students to become skilled professionals, career-ready-leaders and responsible community leaders and to champion the future of skilled trades workers."
Walker is a SkillsUSA Ohio alumni and the state director for SkillsUSA Ohio. She has a master's degree in nursing from Drexel University with a focus on leadership and management systems. While having an incredibly rewarding career as an emergency trauma nurse for 12 years, she discovered that working with students in SkillsUSA and career and technical education is her true passion. Walker began her path with SkillsUSA as a student in 2001 and as an officer in 2002. For the last 13 years, she has held several positions in the organization including being a member of the board, state staff, program manager and assistant state director. Her primary focus within the organization is building partnerships between business and industry, educators, students and community leaders to provide the most opportunities for students to be successful and job-ready, day-one. She also works with state officers, and the leadership and championships programs teaching students how to become the type of worker that business and industry is seeking.
"SkillsUSA is honored to have a business and industry representative like Jackie Walker serve on our national board of directors," said SkillsUSA Executive Director Chelle Travis. "Her work with SkillsUSA Ohio and its relationship with SkillsUSA has made such a positive difference for CTE and for SkillsUSA's mission."
About SkillsUSA
SkillsUSA is America's proud champion of the skilled trades. It's a student-led partnership of education and industry that's building the skilled workforce our nation depends on with graduates who are career ready, day one. Representing nearly 380,000 career and technical education students and teachers, SkillsUSA chapters thrive in middle schools, high schools and college/postsecondary institutions nationwide. SkillsUSA's mission empowers students to become skilled professionals, career-ready leaders and responsible community members. That mission is accomplished through the SkillsUSA Framework of Personal Skills, Workplace Skills and Technical Skills Grounded in Academics, which is integrated into the classroom curriculum. Through Framework instruction, students develop the character-shaping leadership skills — teamwork, communication, professionalism and more — that successful careers and lives demand. At the same time, students hone their high-level technical skills against current industry standards in more than 130 skilled trade areas, from 3-D Animation to Welding. The result? Focused, confident and highly skilled graduates who are ready to work, ready to lead and ready to make a difference in our schools, workplaces and communities. A vital solution to the skills gap, where more in-demand skilled trades positions are available than qualified professionals to fill them, SkillsUSA has served over 14 million difference-making members since 1965. To learn more, visit http://www.skillsusa.org.
Media Contact
Jane DeShong Short, SkillsUSA, 703-737-0612, [email protected], www.SkillsUSA.org
Karen Kitzel, SkillsUSA, 703-737-0607, [email protected], www.SkillsUSA.org
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