ANGELINE C. JACKSON is an LGBTQ human rights activist, expert witness, and minister-in-training. Angeline is the former Executive Director and co-founder of Quality of Citizenship Jamaica. She is the 2014 recipient of the Hero Award from Saint Paul’s Foundation for International Reconciliation for her work on LGBTQ rights in Jamaica, the 2016 Troy Perry Medal of Pride award, the 2017 International Youth Icon Award from the Florida Youth Pride Coalition, and the 2022, LGBT Advocate of the Year.
Her writing has appeared in The Advocate and Time Magazine. She has been interviewed by numerous media outlets and cited in multiple academic papers. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Management from Antioch University, a Master in Business Administration from National University, and is pursuing a Master of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School. In 2015, President Barack Obama recognized her as one of Jamaica’s remarkable young leaders at the Town Hall for Youth in Kingston Jamaica.
She is the Ministerial Intern at Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena, CA, an expert witness for Jamaican LGBTQ asylum seekers, and the author of Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica, a 2023 Lambda Literary Finalist.