Founder: MENO

Host: MENO with Jacqueline Buckingham

Author: FI is the New AI

Jacqueline Buckingham has been building user-generated tech platforms, health infrastructure, and dedicated communities for 25 years. Now she is building proprietary AI she calls FI, Female Intelligence, to serve the largest underserved market in healthcare, women in menopause and perimenopause. MENO is the infrastructure she's building to deploy it. Her reframe that changes everything: the authority that women step into for a third of their lives is status, not a sentence.

Jacqueline is the Founder of MENO, the first definitive platform for menopause and perimenopause care, connecting women to verified providers, curated solutions, and a new standard of care at the intersection of women's health, cultural authority, and artificial intelligence.

She is the Executive Producer and Host of the Anthem Award-winning podcast MENO with Jacqueline Buckingham, and the author of the forthcoming book FI is the New AI, releasing July 2026. Her thesis — Female Intelligence is the missing AI layer as an extension of our human intelligence, begging the question, whose intelligence is it?

TECH INNOVATION

In 2002, long before user-generated content was a category, Jacqueline built Photos for Health — the first community-powered photography platform for major healthcare institutions. Deployed across more than 2 million square feet of hospital space for Indiana University Health, Riley Hospital for Children, and the IU Simon Cancer Center, the platform she designed and built invited patients, staff, physicians, and community members to submit nature photographs for comprehensively curated healing environments. People voted on images from their hospital beds. Couples flew from New York and drove from Texas to attend the openings, to see their photographs made into art and hung in the halls of a children's cancer center, and the invite went viral, reaching across the country with only one intranet post. Healthcare Design Magazine described it as a breakthrough. It was an early Instagram for healing.

Jacqueline built it with a team of three, using proprietary software, and became an early Microsoft Surface partner, invited to test her work on their platform. Her company was amongst the first to have a Surface, when it was bigger than a coffee table. Her technology collected and categorized thousands of images, and she later worked with programming leaders at Penn State to develop an early sorting system for highly sensitive patients undergoing chemotherapy. She was too early for the world to call it what it was. IG for healing.

She built a style and wellness platform with Gap Inc., Nordstrom, J.Crew, and Simon Malls that matched women to style destinations and wardrobes through a proprietary digital system — producing a web series before web series existed, and designing technology to connect women with solutions by taking their feelings into the process. The women she served were navigating post-mastectomy recovery, workforce re-entry, and midlife redefinition. That platform is the direct blueprint for MENO — providers where there were stores, curated solutions where there were wardrobes, and Female Intelligence where there was intuition.

INSTITUTIONAL LEADERSHIP

Jacqueline became the first lady of the Art Gallery of Ontario at 20. What followed were two decades operating at the highest levels of cultural and institutional power — alongside heads of state, billionaires, Nobel laureates, and the most celebrated artists in the world. At the Whitney Museum of American Art, she created the Whitney Contemporaries, the first next-generation philanthropy program in the institution's history, raising millions and redefining what cultural leadership could look like for a new generation. She served as Chairwoman of the Venice Biennale on behalf of the United States. The New York Times covered her work more than 20 times. W Magazine called her "a breath of fresh air in what can be a very stodgy environment."

FOUNDATIONAL SCIENCE

Among the first cohort to pursue distance education at Harvard — in Lifestyle Medicine and Neuroscience — Jacqueline later told the university's president: this is the future. She earned credentials with Stanford's CCare program in compassion cultivation in healthcare, where she learned that most malpractice suits are not filed by people who were truly harmed — but by people who felt unseen. That single insight has informed every platform she has built since. It is the clinical foundation of Female Intelligence: that how a woman feels is not a soft signal. It is data. And it has never been treated as such.

WOMEN'S HEALTH MEDIA, AI & MENOPAUSE

Jacqueline launched, produced, and hosted the Anthem Award-winning podcast that pioneered the full medical conversation around women's health — from HRT and menopause to surgery, endometriosis, and sexual wellbeing — through a single medically authoritative voice, distributed across 23 countries. She interviewed the world's leading physicians, researchers, and founders before they were on Oprah. In 2024, she was the only woman on an AI in Healthcare panel alongside founders from Google, 101 GenAI, and Precision BioPharma, speaking to doctors, healthtech, and biotech experts in Los Angeles.

MENO is not a wellness brand. It is the infrastructure and AI layer that women's health has never had — built by someone who has spent 25 years understanding what women need, how they heal, and what happens when you give a community the tools to generate their own story.

Women drive 80% of consumer spending, live longer than men, and remain the most underserved demographic in healthcare research. Serving women at scale through female-powered technology is what Jacqueline Buckingham has been building toward her entire career. MENO is where it all arrives.

She is a mother of two — a son who is a photographer and NYU film school graduate, and a daughter studying biochemistry at Northeastern University. She is based in Los Angeles. She is a proud Texan.

SPEAKING TOPICS

Jacqueline Buckingham speaks at the intersection of women's health, artificial intelligence, and cultural change. Her talks combine 25 years of building health infrastructure with a rare ability to reframe what an audience thought they already understood.

FI is the New AI: Building Technology as an Extension of Our Shared Humanity
AI · Technology · Female Intelligence

AI without Female Intelligence at its foundation is building an extension of only half of humanity. This talk makes the case for FI — not as a feature, but as the missing infrastructure of technology itself. Jacqueline argues that the systems we build are a reflection of what we value, and that the most consequential question of the AI age is one we have not yet dared to ask: whose intelligence are we building?

Menopause is Status, Not a Sentence: The Cultural Reframing of a Third of a Woman's Life
Culture · Women's Health · Reframing

Menopause can represent up to a third of a woman's life — and yet it has been treated as an ending, a diminishment, a medical inconvenience. Jacqueline reframes it as what it actually is: an arrival. The moment a woman steps into the fullness of her authority, experience, and power. This talk shifts the cultural conversation from decline to ascent — and gives audiences a new language for one of the most significant transitions of their lives.

The $600 Billion Blind Spot: Why Menopausal Women Are the Most Overlooked Market in Healthcare
Market Opportunity · Healthcare · Economics

Women drive 80% of consumer spending, live longer than men, and remain the most underserved demographic in healthcare research. Menopausal and perimenopausal women represent one of the largest untapped markets in the world — and the infrastructure to serve them does not yet exist. This talk is the economic and market case for why that is about to change, and what it means for investors, founders, and healthcare leaders who move first.

Female Intelligence in Healthcare: Closing the Gender Gap in Research, Policy, and Care
AI · Healthcare · Gender Gap

The gender gap in healthcare is not just a social issue — it is a data problem. Women have been systematically excluded from clinical research, measured against male baselines, and underserved by systems that were never designed for them. This talk makes the case for Female Intelligence as the solution: AI trained on women's data, designed around women's lived experience, and accountable to women's outcomes. Jacqueline draws on 25 years of building health platforms to show what becomes possible when we close the gap.

The Cultural Reframe: How Changing the Story Changes Everything
Culture · Brand · Leadership

Before you can change a market, you have to change the story the market tells about itself. Jacqueline has spent 25 years doing exactly that — reframing hospital walls as community art, style as healing, and now menopause as status. This talk explores cultural reframing as a strategic leadership tool: how to identify the story that is limiting your audience, and how to replace it with one that sets them free. For leaders, founders, and anyone building something the world doesn't have language for yet.

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