Jaci Wilson Reid

Governing Board Member

Managing Director, Westin Rinehart

Jaci Wilson Reid is a volunteer fundraiser for non-profit organizations focused on women, children, the arts and minority causes. Her work includes public relations, soliciting donations, recruiting educators, serving as a board member, and hosting benefits at her home. While her activities and events are highlighted in lifestyle magazines and “who’s who” columns of major U.S. newspapers, Jaci takes her role in the public eye seriously and continuously serves as a positive role model and inspiration to other women and minorities. Jaci is also a managing director of Westin Rinehart, focused on philanthropic strategies and lifestyle marketing.

Jaci is a patron of The Whitney Museum, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Kennedy Center and The Rush Foundation. Along with Russell simmons’ Diamond Empowerment Fund, Jaci currently also serves on the boards of Love Heals and Free Arts NYC. Jaci is also heavily involved in Fashion Fights Poverty, a DC based organization that works to promote ethical practices in the fashion industry in partnership with the United Nations.

Each summer Jaci hosts a summer benefit concert in her East Hampton home. For the past five years the concert has benefited VH1 Save The Music, which supports music education in public schools. For the past eight years she has also hosted the Behind the Bench, the National Basketball Wives Assoc. annual Luncheon, benefiting the Behind the Bench organization and honoring the charitable efforts of individuals and organizations. In 2004, Jaci and her husband Morris Reid served as the first African American and youngest couple ever to chair the Washington Ballet Gala. Other events have included co-chairing the 2003 Dance Theatre of Harlem charity gala; Barefoot Cocktails, a celebration of the Children’s Defense Fund; and multiple Creative Coalition fundraising efforts.

Jaci and Morris are true partners in marriage and the business of philanthropy. The couple chaired a Business Summit in conjunction with Turning Point magazine regarding the very topic in 2005. As Co-Managing Director, Morris L. Reid fosters business development, brand building, coalition advocacy and public affairs/issue managment. Mr. Reid is an expert political and business marketing commentator for CNBC and MSNBC, and frequently appears in leading newspapers and journals. Morris also served in Clinton administration in senior staff capacities.

Jaci’s dynamic background combines both public and private sector experience in government, business and politics. A native Texan, Jaci was an analyst with Coastal Corporation of Texas and served in Rockwell International’s NASA division focusing on space shuttle communications operations. Jaci was also the host of “Real Business,” a practical business focused program on Black Entertainment Television.

While living in Texas, Jaci began her successful career in government by serving in the administration of the late Texas Governor Ann Richards. Upon moving to Washington, D.C., she served in the administration of Illinois Senator Carol Mosley-Braun and spent six years in the Clinton Administration with U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

On the political front, Jaci was Deputy Director of Housing at the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Director of Housing for Clinton/Gore ’96, and Director of Hollywood Entertainment at the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.

Jaci and Morris reside in New York City and Washington, D.C.

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