Jacqueline Buckingham

Jacqueline Buckingham (formerly Anderson) is an American activist, actress, feminist filmmaker, and philanthropic entrepreneur. She is the host and executive producer of Cliterology, a weekly podcast dedicated to bringing awareness and amplification to issues related to women’s health to bridge the gender gap in healthcare. On the show, Buckingham interviews leading experts in the field of women’s sexual health to bring their knowledge to her audience surrounding female sexuality, menopause, and mental health.
A mother of two, she is also the founder and CEO of Huge Pussy, an activist brand that empowers women and gives back to non-profit organizations that support women. 
As an actress, she is best known for her supporting roles in Half-Baked, Investigating Sex, Law & Order, and in Amazon’s first film, Portrait. Buckingham also was a regular on Late Night with David Letterman. A society fixture in New York, she has also lived in Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, and Indianapolis.
Buckingham spent over 20 years as a philanthropic cultural leader in global cities as first lady to several of North America’s leading cultural institutions such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and The Dallas Museum of Art. She raised millions of dollars for arts institutions and played pivotal roles as chair and spokeswoman for dozens of events throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including serving as International Chairwoman for the Venice Biennale on behalf of the United States.
== Early life and Education ==
Jacqueline Buckingham was born in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Houston, Texas. Buckingham attended Kingwood High School and was crowned Miss Houston Teen USA in 1992.
She studied Art History and Business at Emory University, earned a B.A. with High Honors from the University of Toronto, and completed post-graduate coursework in neuroscience and lifestyle medicine at Harvard. Buckingham is certified in Compassion Cultivation from Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.
== Career ==
Buckingham worked at Sotheby’s in New York and Toronto and The Chassie Post Gallery in Atlanta before she began her acting career at the Equity Showcase Theatre in Toronto. Since then, she has had numerous roles in films such as Half-Baked, The Gypsy Years, and *Corpus Callosum. She played the supporting role of "Linda" in the Alan Rudolph film Investigating Sex starring Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld, and played the role of "Betsy Kline" in the movie A Touch of Fate starring Teri Hatcher.
Buckingham also appeared as the Guest Star in “Ill-Conceived” " an episode of Law & Order on NBC, playing the lead role of “Helene Zachary” opposite Sam Waterston and Jerry Orbach. Buckingham also appeared as special guest star "Sherry" in the NBC hit series Ed (TV series), appeared on the CBS series Hack (American TV series) in the role of "Marie," and made regular appearances for over two years on the Late Show with David Letterman|Late Show with David Letterman. She played “nurse Glenda Corcoran" on As the World Turns on CBS for a three-episode arc, played the role of "Tiffany" in Jesus, Mary and Joey with Olympia Dukakis and Jennifer Esposito, and spoke German opposite Minnie Driver in Portrait, the first short feature that aired on Amazon.
Buckingham also hosted a documentary “Ten Adventures of a Lifetime” for Outside Magazine / OLN. 
While acting, she also founded and ran an art, design, and style consulting firm, founded in 1998, that helped private and corporate clients with their art collections and women with their overall design and style choices. 
After relocating with her family to Indianapolis, Indiana, she took on the redesign of Westerley, a storied mansion built in the 1920s for pharmaceutical magnate and art collector George Clowes and his philanthropist wife, Edith Clowes. She led the design team for the 13,000 sq ft (1,200 m2) on the over five acre estate and official residence of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which was documented in a cover story and feature in Indianapolis Home Magazine. The renovation was also documented by the Indianapolis Star, and Buckingham gave a keynote at the Indianapolis Museum of Art about the year-long project.
She continued art consulting and undertook large-scale system-wide art installations for Indiana University Health. With some 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m2) of space to program, she created Photos for Health, the first user-generated photography collections for healthcare environments. Photos for Health and her company JBA Art Solutions earned national recognition for the research-based art programs installed in over 2 million square feet of healthcare space, resulting in curated permanent collections at The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, The Riley Hospital for Children, Methodist Hospital, Indiana University Health headquarters, and Indiana University School of Medicine. Healthcare Design praised Photos for Health in a 2009 feature, saying the “project built a community and a sense of diversity far and above what was initially expected.”
The Indianapolis Star, in a 2008 cover story called “Style Guru” about Buckingham’s career in the city, described her company’s work with “130 photographers to edit more than 6,000 images down to 650, ready for placement in hematology and radiology, in relaxation lounges and infusion pods.” 
She launched Style Meets Life in 2008, with feature spreads in Indianapolis Woman Magazine for six concurrent months and a website to assist women with choices regarding shopping and fashion choices. Partnering with Nordstrom, Macy’s, JCPenney, J. Crew, Gap Inc.,Cole Haan, and Simon Malls, Buckingham authored the accompanying column and produced the first web series to feature the mental health and style challenge of a double mastectomy.
In 2018, Amazon debuted The Box, an award-winning sketch series of 11 short feminist films that Buckingham wrote, directed, produced, and starred in. The Box was an official selection at The Hollywood Comedy Short Film Festival, The New York Comedy Short Film Festival, The Austin Comedy Film Festival and The Portland Comedy Film Festival. The next year, Buckingham pulled the series from Amazon, citing gender-based censorship after the platform blocked the use of the word “pussy” in the short film Huge Pussy while allowing the use of the word “balls” in the short film Big Balls. The goal of the Huge Pussy short was to bring a positive connotation to the word. 
Inspired by the censorship she faced with Amazon, Buckingham founded HPH Global Inc. in 2019. The organization is committed to empowering women through and shifting the global imbalance of power between genders through licensing, media, and education. She founded Huge Pussy, an activist product line and ecommerce store that supports non-profit organizations that support women. She experienced additional censorship, including not being able to start a company with Pussy in the name, having a gmail address with pussy in the title, or advertising any of the products on all major platforms. She relaunched Huge Pussy in person at The Women’s March in Los Angeles where she and her daughter gave away 100 products to fellow marchers. The Huge Pussy beanie was called “shocking but practical” by Cosmopolitan magazine, which noted Huge Pussy’s support of The Pink Fund, Planned Parenthood, and NARAL. 
Buckingham founded The Women's Intimate and Sexual Health (W.I.S.H.) Foundation in August 2023. The W.I.S.H. Foundation aims to “stamp out stigmas” that contribute to the gender gap in healthcare. The foundation’s mission is to produce “media that matters” to provide information so women can make educated choices about their sexual health. All of Buckingham’s projects share the common goal of removing the stigma from female sexuality, gender equality, and bridging the gap between the historically sterile, cold, medical treatment of female sexuality and the dirty, too hot to handle association it’s been assigned. 
In 2023, she launched the podcast Cliterology, which she hosts and produces, to discuss critical issues around women's sexual health. Current and upcoming guests on the show include the founding editor of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Dr. Irving Goldstein; the nation’s Chief Cliterologist, Dr. Rachel Rubin; founder of HerMD, Dr. Somi Javiad; CEO of Forty Million Beats, Dr. Jayne Morgan; Founder and Chairman of Congress on Aesthetic Vulvovaginal Surgery, Dr. Red Alinsod; President of ISSWSH, Sue Goldstein; New York Times best-selling author, Regena Thomashauer; and stars of E! series Botched, Dr. Terry Dubrow and Dr. Paul Nassif.
Her forthcoming documentary short The Pussy Papers explores language and the intersection with sexism and censorship and is being released on International Women’s Day in 2024 to support women’s reproductive health.
==Personal life==
In 1995, Buckingham married museum director Maxwell L. Anderson. They were briefly divorced in 2013 before announcing their re-marriage three months later. She and Anderson were married for 21 years and have two children, Chase and Devon. They are no longer married. 
As the first lady of several art museums, she made a name for herself in the New York Society circuit, culminating in 2003 in a two-page profile in W. A year after the attack on the World Trade Center, her fashion sense was cited in the pages of The New York Times as embodying glamor's return. 
She chaired dozens of events for the arts including Dior, the King of Couture, Breaking the Mode, Ingrid Calame, The Madison Avenue BID and was an honorary Chairwoman for Dress for Success. 
The New York Times subsequently reported about her in 2008 to illustrate the challenges of recruiting spouses as part of professional recruitment for museum jobs. While living in Indiana, she undertook an expensive interior redesign of the 13,000 sq ft (1,200 m2) official residence of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which was documented in cover story and feature in Indianapolis Home Magazine. She also appeared on the cover of Indianapolis Woman in 2007 along with a feature story about her cultural leadership in the city called “Portrait of a Trendsetter.”
A 500-hour yoga instructor and meditation practitioner trained by Deepak Chopra, Buckingham co-founded The Wellness Center in 2015 offering daily, weekly, and monthly opportunities to improve one’s mental and physical health in Dallas, Texas. The Dallas Business Journal called the center a “bridge between Asian art and Western wellbeing.” A joint venture with the Crow Collection of Asian Art to blend eastern wisdom with western science, Buckingham led classes in yoga, mediation, and mindset training with medical and wellness leaders. She gave regular wellness talks including “Personalizing your Lifestyle Medicine Prescription” at Baylor Health and “Demystifying Meditation” at The Wellness Institute. 
==Philanthropy and Advocacy==
Nominated for the TED MainStage for her activism in the field of women’s health and thought leadership connecting female sexuality to our global imbalance of power, Buckingham’s philanthropic focus is shifting antiquated cultural beliefs to improve modern medicine for women.
She is the founder of The W.I.S.H. Foundation, an organization with a mission of stamping out stigmas through media that matters. Providing cost-free access to intelligent information so women can make educated choices about their sexual health, the foundation funds CLITEROLOGY, a leading podcast delivering intelligent information about women’s sexual health from the preeminent experts in the field. As the host and executive producer of CLITEROLOGY, Buckingham’s goal is to prioritize women’s health through awareness and education.
A mother committed to raising her children with a global citizen mindset, Buckingham wrote and produced a pro-bono documentary film for AMPATH’s Orphans and Vulnerable Children Program in Kenya with her son and studied Vajrayana Buddhism as part of a four year travel program she designed and embarked upon with him. A decade later, she wrote and taught a yearlong global school curriculum throughout Australasia for her daughter measuring quality of life for women around the world.
Buckingham is a mentor and avid supporter of public school education, the pro-bono Director of Development for the board at the Girls Academic Leadership Academy in Los Angeles, and former trustee for the Visual Art and Design Academy at Santa Barbara High School. Buckingham supports organizations dedicated to women’s health, gender equality, and the economic and educational empowerment of women.
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