Biographical Sketch
Professor Jackson teaches the Health Rights Law Clinic at GW, in which law students help their clients secure access to health care through public programs and private health insurance. She also directs the Health Insurance Counseling Project, a public interest law firm within the Community Legal Clinics, which assists thousands of Medicare beneficiaries each year. After graduating from Harvard Law School, she entered Georgetown Law Center’s Women, Law, and Public Policy Fellowship program, working on health insurance and family caregiving issues at the Older Women’s League. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Gladys Kessler at the D.C. Superior Court, and then as staff and managing attorney at Ayuda, representing immigrant and refugee women in actions for protective orders and other remedies. She has received awards for her work from the D.C. Superior Court’s Hispanic Heritage Committee and from Ayuda. In 2004 she was elected to chair the D.C. Department of Health’s Medical Care Advisory Committee, which assists the District’s Medicaid program with policy and program issues. She also co-chaired a coalition that successfully amended District law to allow the city’s Adult Protective Services unit to assist vulnerable, self-neglecting people.

Education
B.A., Wellesley College; J.D., Harvard University