Sara K. Jackson, Staff Attorney and EJS/Impact 209 National Equal Opportunity Coordinator

Sara Jackson is an EJS Staff Attorney and the Impact 209 National Equal Opportunity Coordinator. She was previously the EJS Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow for 2007-08.

Sara earned her J.D. and Masters of Public Policy from the UCLA School of Law and School of Public Affairs. While at UCLA, she served as vice president of the Student Bar Association, staff editor of both the Women’s Law Journal and Journal of Sexual Orientation Law and was awarded an Exceptional Merit Scholar by the Foundation of the State Bar of California. She also participated in the law school’s Hurricane Katrina Advocacy Clinic, Juvenile Hall Clinic, Public Interest Law Fund, and Students Helping Assure Racial Equity, Justice & Diversity.

Sara’s prior legal experience includes working at the NAACP LDF in New York City as a Political Participation and Education Divisions Legal Intern, for Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Paez as a Judicial Extern, and at New Schools Better Neighborhoods as a Policy Intern.

Before entering law school, Sara served as Program/Development Coordinator for Strategic Education Centers in Seattle and in Mbabane, Swaziland, and as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children in Seattle’s dependency court system. She was also a youth law and housing discrimination intern for the Minnesota Legal-Aid Society in Minneapolis and a legislative assistant to Seattle City Councilmember Richard Conlin.

Sara received her Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in women, environment and development from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. She’s proficient in Spanish and has some fluency in Kiswahili.