Angeline Jackson is an LGBT human rights activist, an HIV/AIDS educator, and the former Executive Director of Quality of Citizenship Jamaica. In 2015, President Barack Obama recognized Angeline Jackson as one of Jamaica’s remarkable young leaders at the Town Hall for Youth in Kingston Jamaica. She also participated on a US Senate briefing panel and attended the first White House Forum on Global LGBT Rights where she met with Vice President Joe and Jill Biden.
Angeline became involved in human rights activism in 2006 and has since become an out lesbian activist standing up for visibility, working with noted attorney and human rights activist Maurice Tomlinson and others in Jamaica and the US. She is a 2014 graduate of the International Emerging Leaders program at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, which organizes and empowers individuals to defeat anti-LGBT prejudice locally and through hands-on mentorship with activists from around the world. In the same year, she received the Hero Award from Saint Paul’s Foundation for International Reconciliation for her work on LGBT rights in Jamaica, the 2016 Troy Perry Medal of Pride award, and the Florida Youth Pride Coalition Icon Award in 2017.
Over the years Angeline has presented at various events and panels including the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: Creating
Change, Founders Metropolitan Community Church: Realizing the Right to Relate, Washington University: World Affairs Council, Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria, a repeat featured speaker at Human Rights First International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) Events on Capitol Hill (2014-2016), Intimate Conviction in Jamaica, and Ethics of Reciprocity: Theology intensive retreat. She has published several writings on the LGBT situation in Jamaica and has been quoted and interviewed for numerous media outlets and literature.
Angeline is a fellow of the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum: Strengthening Communities- LGBT Human Rights and Social Cohesion and Salzburg Global LGBT Forum: The Many Faces of LGBT Inclusion. She currently continues her work as an expert witness on asylum cases for LGBT Jamaicans.
