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Jacqueline S. Homan - Jacqueline S. Homan

Construction:

Jacqueline S. Homan broke ground becoming the first woman plasterer in an all white male construction trades union in 1989. She has had first-hand experience dealing with the obstacles and ramifications of gender discrimination in male-dominated fields.

Learning Disabilities Advocate:

After a car accident in 1991 took Jacqueline out of the workforce for several years, she overcame the nearly insurmountable obstacles of generational poverty, dyslexia, and other barriers as a non-traditional aged student to earn her Bachelors Degree in mathematics and computer science with a minor in physics from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

During her own struggle with dyslexia, she joined the non-profit group Learning Disabilities Association of America of Pennsylvania and became a volunteer advocate for parents of children with learning disabilities in the Philadelphia-Allentown area. While attending Kutztown University, she worked as a tutor in mathematics and physics in the academic support lab. Her color-coding techniques were adopted uniformly by Dr. Jane Becker, Dean of the Academic Support Department. All other peer tutors were shown this technique for helping those for whom learning is difficult. Jacqueline graduated in 2001 at the age of 34.

Stockbroker/Financial Planner/Insurance Agent:

During her final semester in college in 2001, Jacqueline began training and working in the finance and investment banking industry. Her experience included options trading, hedging, foreign currency options contracts, and stock analysis. Although her job with a brokerage firm was truncated due to the events known as 9/11, Jacqueline continued working as a property & casualty insurance agent until she was encouraged to pursue a career as a nonfiction author and independent freelance journalist.

Social Activism For Economic Justice:

Her concern about the social and economic injustices in our society due to age, sex, race, and class discrimination fueled her determination to prove that America is not the meritocracy everyone thinks. She gives a stunningly brutal inside look at just how classism serves to keep the poor "in their place", and how corporate America rigged the game against the middle class in her first book Classism For Dimwits — which served as the prelude for her third book, Nothing You Can Possess , which tackles the issue of global capital. Her second book, Eyes of a Monster, is the true account of the Pennsylvania death penalty conviction and appeal of Richard Laird (who is undoubtedly a hero to Rev. Fred Phelps) targeted and murdered another man, Anthony Milano, specifically for being gay. Anthony Milano was the "Matthew Shepard before Matthew Shepard." Her fourth book, Divine Right: The Truth is a Lie, takes the gloves off in showing how religion has promoted past and present crimes against humanity aimed almost exclusively at women and offers compelling points that question the validity and truth of the Bible.