Valerie Jackson

 Location: United States

Valerie Jackson, Host of Atlanta, Georgia's public radio station, WABE's Between the Lines, a series of conversations with some of today's brightest and most notable writers and thinkers, and former First Lady of Atlanta as wife of the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. She earned her M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1973, she worked as an advertising executive at Grey Advertising in New York City, and as Regional Marketing Supervisor for TWA's corporate headquarters in New York.