Jessica Jackson is an American human rights attorney and Chief Advocacy Officer at REFORM Alliance.
13 Facts About Jessica Jackson
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Jessica Jackson is the co-founder of Dream Corps JUSTICE, a national bipartisan effort aimed at reducing America's incarceration rate.
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Jessica Jackson attended Hyde School in Woodstock, CT where she was nominated to the school's inaugural Alumni Hall of Honor in 2016.
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At age 18, Jackson dropped out of high school and received her GED.
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When Jessica Jackson was 22, her then-husband was sentenced to six years in prison for a nonviolent drug offense.
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Jessica Jackson had a newborn baby and no job, so she moved in with her mother.
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Jessica Jackson received her bachelor's degree in Political Science and English from the Honors College of the University of South Florida.
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Jessica Jackson was elected to the Mill Valley City Council in November 2013, becoming the youngest ever elected official in Marin County.
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Jessica Jackson served as a board member of the American Constitution Society Bay Area chapter.
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Jessica Jackson began her career as a human rights attorney at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center in San Francisco, California, where she represented California death row inmates in their appeals.
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Jessica Jackson met Van Jones during a chance meeting and began talking with him and a law school friend, Matt Haney, about criminal justice reform.
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Jessica Jackson is the recipient of the 2017 John Kable, QC, Memorial Young Justice Professional Award, the 2018 ACLU Benjamin Dreyfus Civil Liberties Award, the 2019 Alexander Law Prize from Santa Clara University and the 2019 American Constitution Society Fearless Advocate Award.
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Jessica Jackson is a 2021 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.