Jessica Jackson Sloan

Jessica Jackson is an American human rights attorney and chief executive officer at REFORM Alliance. At age 18, Jackson dropped out of high school and received her GED.

Career Jessica Jackson was elected to the Mill Valley City Council in November 2013, becoming the youngest ever elected official in Marin County. In 2015, she was rotated in off of City Council (not an election, as City Council rotates Mayoral terms), to serve as Mayor of Mill Valley. In addition to her duties on the Mill Valley City Council, Jackson served as Mill Valley's representative to the Association of Bay Area Governments. She also served as a board member of the American Constitution Society Bay Area chapter.

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. While leading her national initiative, #cut50, Jessica helped ban the shackling of jailed pregnant women in 14 states. Her “Dignity for Incarcerated Women” campaign enlisted formerly incarcerated women and dozens of celebrities to deepen the focus on women's issues. At the helm of #cut50, Jessica built the biggest national grassroots network for bipartisan reform, #cut50's Empathy Network. She also produced the first-ever Bipartisan Criminal Justice Summit, attracting leaders as diverse as Newt Gingrich and then Attorney General Eric Holder. Jackson handed over her leadership role at #cut50 to focus on her job at Reform Alliance, but currently serves in a supportive role at #cut50. She is tutoring Kim Kardashian in law.

Jackson currently serves as chief executive officer of REFORM Alliance.

Recognition Jackson has received several awards and accolades. She 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. She is a 2021 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.