The Pitch Questionnaire with Pages & Chapters’ Jenny Jackaway
Name: Jenny Jackaway
Occupation: Executive director, Pages & Chapters
Tell us about your work with Pages & Chapters and Open Books: Pages & Chapters began in fall 2011 with home visits to urban families to provide support in the area of literacy. Summer 2012 added more programming at the Waldo Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, where we offered a summer reading workshop for families. We had five families participate and about 30 volunteers.
This fall, we are launching our school-year project called Open Books. This will be held on Wednesdays, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Waldo library, and at a yet-to-be-determined location in Englewood, in the Northland. At Open Books, parents and kids will work together in a family literacy workshop, with the support of literacy mentors, to practice reading and writing skills.
Hometown: I am originally from Terre Haute, Indiana, and I went to college and graduate school in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Current neighborhood: Downtown KC
Who or what is your sidekick? My iPad and my iPhone
What career would you choose in an alternate reality? A writer
What was the last local restaurant you patronized? La Bodega
