“In Her Peace" Written and Performed by Bouvier (aka Dr. Jacqueline “Bouvier” Copeland) from her debut “Blachant” album, April 2022

About

Dr. Jacqueline “Bouvier” Copeland is a transdisciplinary social change artist, scholar, and advocate. She blends the tools of philanthropy, social impact investing, and venture funding with the arts, science, and technology to help create a better world for all people and the planet we share. Her life and career have been driven by her abiding love of nature and all humanity.A long-time foundation and corporate executive, she also is founder and CEO of Women Invested to Save Earth Fund (WISE), a global funding equity enterprise. WISE supports women and other diverse innovators developing novel, affordable technologies and strategies to address social, economic, and environmental challenges.A humble recipient of many leadership awards, she is recognized as one of the world’s Top 100 Philanthropists by Unbound Philanthropy. Most notably, she founded Black Philanthropy Month (BPM), a 23-year-old initiative to advance Afrodescendant giving and funding equity worldwide. Culminating and celebrated each August, BPM has engaged 100 million people in 60 nations, more than the number of countries celebrating Black History Month.Recognized for the initial design of what would become President Obama’s signature My Brother Keeper initiative, she has been a visionary corporate executive and senior consultant for multiple foundations and companies. As a US Bank Private Client Group vice president and managing director, she created its national philanthropic advisory service with specialty products for high net worth women and athletes.Former COO of Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI), she led career development and recruitment services for women technologists and Fortune 1000 technology companies in 80 countries, including managing ABI’s India subsidiary.Inaugural executive director of the African Women's Development Fund USA, she served as COO of Catholic Charities of Santa Clara Country leading human services to 30,000 disadvantaged, vulnerable Silicon Valley, CA residents each year.As COO of award-winning Minnesota public-private partnership, Twin Cities RISE!, she contributed to the design of novel social finance methods to increase funding for employment training in chronically poor communities.Once program vice president for The Philadelphia Foundation, and a senior consultant to large foundations across the USA through the Organization and Management Group, a private firm spin-off of the Wharton School, she has consistently created novel programs and services that have been replicated across multiple fields as cutting-edge practices. A former cultural anthropology, philanthropy, and corporate social responsibility professor, she has trained hundreds of students to work successfully across cultures in a global economy.

A former Huffington Post writer and acclaimed author of dozens of well-regarded articles and books, Dr. Copeland has been featured in multiple regional, national, and global news publications, including Africa.com, BET, NPR, Non-Profit Quarterly, The Boston Herald, Indianapolis Business Journal, The Silicon Valley Business Journal, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Forbes, Essence, Black Enterprise, Thrive Global, The Grio, Blavity, The Star Tribune, Minneapolis-Spokesmen, and many others.Also a singer-songwriter, she performs and executive produces under the sobriquet, “Bouvier.” Her latest publications are philanthropy albums, including debut project, “Blachant,” and now her second release, “I Wish You Love, Brazil: Bouvier Live!” A tribute to Brazil and the global Black Diaspora, it was recorded at her live concert in Rio de Janeiro to celebrate Carnival 2024.The album is produced with Soul Fusion, a WISE project also founded by Dr. Copeland to advance Afrodescendant music as a tool to heal and unify all people. She will be a performer at the famed Freira Preta 2025 in São Paulo, Brazil, singing from her new Angelitos Preta repertoire. All net music proceeds support nonprofit enterprises in Brazil, Mexico, the USA, and African countries. Click the link for samples of Bouvier’s music, performances, and productions.A cultural anthropologist, futurist, technologist, and certified as a master life coach, Dr. Copeland has received training as an interfaith spirituality coach from the Bay Area, California USA seminary, The Chaplaincy Institute. She has a doctorate and two master’s degrees from University of Pennsylvania with two undergraduate degrees from Georgetown University. She also has a social finance diploma from Oxford University, and another in corporate board governance from Santa Clara University. A graduate of Stanford University’s well-respected Summer Jazz Institute, she has received jazz vocal training from global and national masters such as Jose James and Madeline Eastman.A lifelong learner and avid dancer, she is a certified Zumba instructor; is now creating her own movement practice; and studies samba and salsa with master teachers and performers based in Rio de Janeiro and Havana.

Leadership and Motivational Speaking

Dr. Copeland is a sought after keynote speaker especially on issues of social and environmental responsibility, diversity, women’s leadership, design, sustainable architecture, technology and social change, futurism, funding equity, innovation, personal development, wellness and spirituality, Africa, Diasporas, social finance and philanthropy, international relations, and travel. She has spoken to live in-person and virtual audiences of 50,000 people for corporate and philanthropic events in the USA, the Caribbean, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Europe, Australia, and India, including The Council on Foundations, GIFE, Brazil’s Philanthropy and Social Investment Association, Indiana University’s Lilly School of Philanthropy, The Ford Foundation, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology among others.

Life and Executive Coaching Services

A highly effective, certified master life coach with decades of executive leadership experience, Dr. Copeland’s coaching practice specializes in issues of life purpose and navigating change. Working with international clientele, she has devised a proprietary Change Mastery Coaching Program that helps leaders from all backgrounds and careers define their life purpose and align their career and family priorities. She also provides management and organizational change coaching. For those interested in defining and developing their relationship with a transcendent reality or the divine from any religious or non-judgmental agnostic or atheist perspective, Dr. Copeland provides respectful interfaith spirituality coaching services, offering guidance to diverse clients.

Advisory and Consulting Services

Drawing on decades of experience designing, leading, and evaluating award-winning social and environmental impact initiatives and products, Dr. Copeland helps select companies, foundations, and others create high impact organizations. Services include identifying future trends, strategic planning, ESG design and evaluation, in the fields of philanthropy, impact investing, healthcare, community development, and environmental technology. Commissioned research and market studies are also available.

Music Performance and Production

Dr. Copeland is a proud product of the Black Church’s music tradition and mentee of influential artist-advocate and scholar, the late Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon of Sweet, Honey and the Rock fame as well as the Smithsonian Institution. Creating and performing under the sobriquet, Bouvier, she is an acclaimed, emerging international vocalist and songwriter specializing in contemporary Black heritage music. In a unique style, albeit frequently compared to Sarah Vaughan and Nina Simone, her genre-blurring world music fuses African ancestral sounds with those of her USA Gullah Geechee African American heritage and diverse musical exposure through her world travels as a cultural anthropologist and student of diverse sacred traditions. As noted by Italian music critic, Angelo Leonardi, “Bouvier sings with a rich soul feeling in a blend that ranges from gospel suggestions, Yoruba rhythmic quotations and jazz ballads.”The resulting polyrhythmic, chantlike singing style provides a calming, cathartic, joyous experience for musical audiences of all backgrounds and many listeners use the music for meditation. Says music critic Jim Hynes, “Bouvier has a gorgeous voice and a sincere mission. One cannot help but feel the deep spirituality coursing through her calming, meditative, and heartfelt delivery.”Bouvier’s music mission is to uplift consciousness, joy, healing, unity, and love for all people through the transformative power of the global Black music heritage. Her original song, “Holla!,” which she wrote and performed on her 2022 debut album, Blachant, was cited as one of the year’s best socially conscious jazz songs by All About Jazz.Dr. Copeland welcomes opportunities to lecture on global Black music and cultural heritage. Bouvier is also available for performances at various venues especially festivals and workshops that expose and educate audiences about the influence of African and Black Diaspora music on the world. Net proceeds from her music projects fund arts, as well as social and environmental projects in vulnerable communities worldwide.

Fashion and Women’s Empowerment

Dr. Copeland started runway modeling in college. During a guest lecture at Georgetown University in the 1980s, business leader Naomi Sims, the world’s first Black supermodel, invited a young Dr. Copeland to embark on a modeling career under her guidance. Dr. Copeland rejected the invitation for several reasons, including a preference to finish her college degree. However, she is now accepting modeling projects that combine her love of fashion with social justice to celebrate and inspire women and others over the age of 40, who often face age bias in their personal and professional lives.