Writer's Bio
For three decades, Cathy Jackson-Gent has offered professional financial consulting services and support to municipal agencies in the California Bay Area, specifically the Oakland community.
She initially planned to use her Computer Science/Management Science dual degree from USF to work in Silicon Valley, the then-newly formed tech industry. After a short stint in a corporation, she identified her strengths and founded Global Investment Company (GIC).
GIC’s clients range from well-known political figures and large corporations to families focused on preserving wealth for future generations.
The company thrived during the lush economy, survived the 2008-2013 recession and will expand its leadership role in the Bay Area community moving forward.
Cathy saw a need for a book that highlighted her ability to navigate a system rigged against people like her.
The byproduct of her effort, experience and excellence is “Surviving Financially in a Rigged System” published by Third World Press Foundation, the oldest independent publisher of Black thought and literature in the country.
Cathy Jackson-Gent provides instruction about how to avoid such financial mishaps. She represents a kind of public intellectual, a field that is top heavy with those aim is to change the attitudes of millions about race. Such public intellectuals, religious and secular, perform a service. Navigation through a corrupt system must be meticulous, strategic and charted by a trailblazer. Cathy is that trailblazer.
- Foreward by Ishmael Reed