TREASURER:Patti Jones

Patti Jones has two loves:  music and sports.  “My love for music started with my maternal grandfather, William R. Baker, Sr., who would play Scott Joplin’s music on his upright piano.”    Two other musical influences were Patti’s aunt, jazz vocalist Bettie Wellman (professionally known as Jyene Baker) and her uncle Eddie Baker, the director of the New Breed Orchestra and one of the founders of the Charlie Parker Memorial Foundation (CMPF) in Kansas City, Missouri.   In 1985, Ms. Jones became the administrative assistant at the CPMF enjoying a seven year stint officially and another seven years unofficially.

During the filming of Last of the Blue Devils

Patti’s other love is sports.  From 1994 until 2006, Patti was the Camp Coordinator for the Mike Jones FREE Football Camps in Kansas City.  This entailed producing three separate camps (elementary, high school and special needs) over a four-day period for thirteen consecutive summers.

Ms. Jones has experience in accounts receivables and payables; line item budgets; grants writing and fund raising; event production; consultant for not-for-profit organizations with emphasis on youth and arts programs; educational workshops; cultural exchanges; volunteer recruitment; publicity and promotion.  Since 1995 she has served on the Finance Council for her church.

Ms. Jones earned a Master’s of Science Degree in Public Administration from California State University in Los Angeles, California, and a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Political Science from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.  She also earned a diploma from LISC “Building 21^st Century Leaders” and another from the Ewing Kauffman Entrepreneurial “Fast Trac”program.

She is the proud mother of son, Mario, an emerging performing artist.

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