Origin: Matriarchal; Guinea-Bissau, Balanta people. I was born in Akron, Ohio, to the late Alvar Estelle Flinn Jackson and Noel Joseph Jack (aka) Jackson. Attend New Hope Baptist and First Grace UCC Churches. Grandmother of five and one great-grandson.

Education in life:

St. Mary’s grade School, I am a proud graduate of Akron South High School class of 1965.

First job Akron, St. Thomas Hospital in 1962-1968 in the Housekeeping Department and then Nursing Service.

In Chicago 1968 Participated in the 1968 Democratic Conventions protest as a participant in the social unrest (Anti- Vietnam war).

In 1983-1992, Employed with the Care Group of Texas and other agencies as a Home Health Hospice Aide caring for AIDS patients, took assignments to work at Twelve Oaks Hospital in Houston, Texas.

In 1995-1999 I was employed at Memorial Hermann Hospital as a PCAII, in the Medical and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit while studying at Houston Baptist (Christian) University.

Secondary Education:

• Two years at Houston Community College, studying prerequisites for Associate Degree in Nursing.
• Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Sociology from Houston Baptist University 1996.
• Master in Social Work from the University of Houston University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work in May of 2000.
• Co-founder of the Greater Akron Canton Association of Black Social Workers 2001.
• The National Black Alcoholism and Addictions Council, Inc. Center for Disease Control’s HIV project 2003-2009 DEBI Intervention roll out, Capacity Building Provider for OH, PA and WV.
• Summit County Children Services, Intake Worker PT 2003-2010.
• Ohio Mental Health & Addiction Services Training & Treatment Coordinator five counties
• 2010-214
• NABSW’s Comprehensive Health & Wellness Committee Chairperson four years.
• NAACP Criminal Justice Committee.
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• NAACP GOTV, voter registration, 2016 and 2020, 2024.
• Developed Education by Exposure program of GACABSW “Lynching Museum Tours entitled Montgomery to Selma Tour.
• Whitney Plantation tour in Edgar, La.
• Justice for Jayland Walker rally for justice, 2023 DOJ Washington, DC

Public speaking forms and engagements

1. Trauma Informed Care Approaches in Relationship to the African American Community
2. The African American Mental Health.
3. Family Black Pride March 2018,2019.
4. Kent Interfaith Alliance
5. NABSW Conference Atlanta, Ga. 2016
6. NABSW San Diageo, California 2017, 2018 Detroit, Michigan.
7. NAACP State Convention Canton, Ohio
8. Summit County Progressive DEMS
9. Akron Summit County Community Action Health Community Health Workers 2019
10. Board Member Akron AIDS Collaborative Bayard Rustin LGBTQIA Center
11. Board The Newly Revised E. A. C. H.
12. KWANZAA / Celebration KUUMBA 14 years.
13. Aided in the planning and implementation of NAACP “March to Save Our Children” travel to Washington, D.C.
14. Organized two buses to the Lynching Museum (EJI) Montgomery, Ala.
15. Organized four buses to National Museum of African American History and Culture
16. February 23, 2024, Trauma Informed Care Approached to Black Women preventing HIV to Black Women, Girls, and Transwomen,
17. 2024, Spearheaded the Gilead Science grant Setting the P.A.C.E.: Improving the Landscape for Black Women, Girls, and Transwomen Preventing HIV in ten southern cities with The National Association of Black Social Workers.

Currently Retired consultant for Urban Ounce of Prevention Services, Supervising Master Social Work Interns attending Case Western Reserve University during COVID-19.