Speakers

Jessica L. Jackson
Attorney/Co-Pastor

New Living Way Christian Center

Rev. Jessica L. Jackson serves as co-pastor and administrator of New Living Way Christian Center (NLWCC), a multicultural non-denominational church in south Minneapolis, MN. She is also a licensed employment attorney, qualified neutral (mediator), experienced Circle Keeper, and trainer. Ms. Jackson has worked with Fortune 500 companies, large public sector employers, higher education institutions, charter schools, and non-profit organizations to resolve a range of employment law matters. She is one of the original members of the first Peacemaking Circle initiative in the nation that responded to child protection issues within Hennepin County, Minnesota. Jackson is President of Cirlutions LLC, (which stands for Circle Solutions), a consulting firm that partners with corporate, non-profit, educational, community, and faith-based clients to creatively address complex contemporary human dilemmas through the ancient wisdom of Circle. A former adjunct in General College and Associate to the Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action at the University of Minnesota, she created and coordinated Race Circle – an educational, community building and train-the-trainer Circle initiative on identifying white privilege and undoing individual and institutional racism. Rev. Jackson currently teaches a course on Circle and traditional mediation at Bethel University as a part of the Reconciliation Studies major/minor program in the Anthropology and Sociology Department. Rev. Jackson is currently working on her first book on race and healing to be published in 2009.