Jessica Jackson is an American human rights attorney[1] and Chief Advocacy Officer at REFORM Alliance.
[2] She is also the co-founder of Dream Corps JUSTICE, a national bipartisan effort aimed at reducing America's incarceration rate.
[2] Jackson received her bachelor's degree in Political Science and English from the Honors College of the University of South Florida.
[12] Jackson met Van Jones during a chance meeting and began talking with him and a law school friend, Matt Haney, about criminal justice reform.
[13][14][15][16] While leading her national initiative, #cut50, Jessica helped ban the shackling of jailed pregnant women in 14 states.
[18] She also produced the first-ever Bipartisan Criminal Justice Summit, attracting leaders as diverse as Newt Gingrich and then Attorney General Eric Holder.