Grammy Award and American Music Award winner, Jeanette Hawes, is a successful professional singer for over 35 years with her sisters, The Emotions. Now pursuing more theatrical solo opportunities, she is using her executive administrative skills to build a nonprofit organization that she has founded, Jahi All National Treasures Homes. The continuing creative endeavors and contacts throughout the entertainment industry will enable her to bring light to this very important work as she develops the Artistic Presentations that will keep the focus of the public on the needs of orphans and emancipated foster youth. Fundraising and event coordinating for one of the most prestigious non-profits in the performing arts industry, the Music Center of Los Angeles presently, has allowed Ms. Hawes to garner the skills and understanding of all the important facets of operating successfully even in today’s financial climate.

Katie Ruiz - Treasurer

Roscoe Foreman - Secretary

Former practicing attorney of contract law of over 30 years, has managed a successful law firm for over twenty years and still holds his attorney’s license.  Presently, he is a real estate developer who has for the last ten years been among the entrepreneurs in Chicago responsible for the uplifting of the city.  He has agreed to serve with this organization because he, too, believes in the vision and mission to impact for good the lives of the emancipated foster youth and orphans.

About the Emotions 

Wanda, Sheila and Jeanette Hutchinson grew up in Chicago's South Side.  They began singing at the ages of three, four and five years old.  Their multi-talented father, lead singer and guitarist Joseph Hutchinson, Sr., (passed in 1985) not only taught the girls how to play piano, but he also taught them how to read music and how to harmonize together.  They toured the gospel performing as "The Hutchinson Sunbeam"  with their father.  The sisters appeared on the Jerry Van Dyke Show, Jubilee Showcase, a weekly radio and television broadcast from Chicago, Illinois.  During their travels with various other gospel singers, they sang in concerts with Mahalia Jackson, The Caravans, Wings of Heaven, and many others.  An original song, written by Sheila, was the first secular recording that launched the singing sisters into the national spotlight, with a song called, “So I Can Love You”.  Many other songs were written by the trio as they became nationally and internationally acclaimed.  Their multi-platinum recordings made in the late 70’s and 80’s, are still enjoyed in the twenty first century throughout the world still being played and sold in the radio and internet.  “Best of My Love”, “Boogie Wonderland”, “ I Don’t Wanna Loose Your Love”, “Don’t Ask My Neighbor” “Let’s Groove Tonight” have been heard in films and commercials often, continues to be heard in the 21^st century.