Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Ingrid Saunders Jones
Ingrid Saunders Jones
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| Other authors / contributors: | Jones, Ingrid Saunders, 1945- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Jackson, Adrian, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Adrian Jackson.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 December 9.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Corporate foundation executive Ingrid Saunders Jones was born on December 27, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Northwestern High School in 1964. Jones earned her B.S. degree in education at Michigan State University and her M.A. degree in education at Eastern Michigan University. She worked as a teacher in Detroit before joining a nonprofit childcare organization and becoming executive director in two years. Jones was accepted into the competitive Atlanta Fellows Program and ultimately became the executive assistant to Atlanta's first African American mayor, Maynard Jackson. After working as the Atlanta City Council president's legislative analyst, she followed Chris Ware to the Coca Cola Company in 1982. She rose to become the senior vice president of the company and chairperson of The Coca Cola Foundation. In 2002, Jones became the first African American to receive an American Jewish Committee Institute of Human Relations Award. Jones retired from Coca Cola in 2013.
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