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Rev. Debora Jackson has been part of Worcester Polytechnic Institute s administration for nearly a decade, having served on the university board since 2012, but it wasn’t until her appointment to business school dean in January that her influence at the school and in the Greater Worcester community really took off.
WPI has been putting a greater emphasis on having a more inclusive student body and faculty while focusing on its experiential and project-based learning, and Jackson – the first woman and person of color to be WPI’s business school dean – offers plenty of real-world STEM experience from her long career, which included IT and software engineering at companies like Digital Equipment Corp. and becoming chief operating and chief information officer at an e-commerce energy services provider.