Tamika Jenkins is a project coordinator with the Mississippi County Economic Development Commission and has been with the organization since 2007. As the former executive director of the South Mississippi County United Way, she shares a vast network with many nonprofit agencies and helps them achieve their individual and collective goals.
Jenkins has worked on many projects that study the attitudes, mind sets and habits of impoverished people in Mississippi County. With a background in engineering and project management, she possesses the organizational skills needed to lift any project off of the ground and keep it going.
Jenkins has served on the Great River Charitable Clinic executive board and currently serves with Daddy’s Diamonds. She has completed a host of leadership programs throughout her career. She belongs to Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Osceola, where she is a member of the praise team, a youth director, former church clerk and current treasurer. Jenkins is affiliated with the MCAEOC and Arkansas Northeastern College. She believes it’s necessary to provide hope to area youth through exposure to new and fruitful opportunities.
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