Category Archive for 'Jon Becker'

Didn’t he get the memo?

In September of 2007, Jon, Jacqui and Drew Becker (and their two cats Willie and Ubie) left the familial comforts of New York and relocated to Richmond, Virginia. There, Jon works as an assistant professor of educational leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU); Jacqui works part-time in the VCU Counseling Center and maintains a [...]

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“How Come?”

Jon Becker started dating his wife, Jacqui, when they were 16 and 15 respectively.  Despite attending college separately, they got married nearly nine years after their first date.  Then, nearly six years after their wedding, they defended their dissertations (in different fields at different universities) 15 minutes apart from each other (no joke)! A couple [...]

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Today is all about the Dad side of the parenting equation and we’d like to mark the occasion by introducing you to the wonderful fathers who will be contributing to This Mommy Gig on a regular basis. We’ll have a daddy post about once per week to give you the OTHER side of the story [...]

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