Jarah V. Jacquay
Jarah V. Jacquay, MSN, RN, PMGT-BC, CNL, CNU-A, is a Pensacola-based healthcare leader, civic entrepreneur, and managing principal of Virtuous Cycle LLC. He holds the Waterfront Alliance's WEDG Associate credential. He is a cofounder and president-emeritus of Bluffline, a project discussed in this essay, and has been admitted to the DrPH program in Environmental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Views expressed here are his own.
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