Jackie Ross is an experienced lifelong social worker where she advocated on behalf of hundreds of disenfranchised urban teenagers and adults. She was a talented advocate for the downtrodden, keeping dozens from being incarcerated. She previously founded and directed a 501(c)3 in New Jersey that served youth, families, and other adults. She sat on a juvenile drug court for almost a decade, and was a well known leader of legal based community programs in the city where she devoted her professional career to for over five decades.
Upon retirement from the urban streets, Jackie became an International Human Rights Advocate and Asylum Coordinator. She now takes on limited pro bono advocacy cases in the Middle East fighting for human rights releases and asylum cases.
Jackie and her husband, a retired professor, have been lifelong fighters for justice and human rights. She has written articles for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange and Youth Today. This is her first book, and it is destined to become a play. She is now researching material for her next book.