Hi, I’m Angeline!

C.L.C., M.B.A., M.Div

I am an LGBTQ human rights activist, HIV/AIDS educator, Unitarian Universalist Minister, life coach, and expert witness.

I am the former Executive Director of Quality of Citizenship Jamaica.

I earned my Master of Business Administration from John. F. Kennedy University in 2020 and earned my Master in Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School in 2023, where I studied as the Christianson Family Scholar.

I served as the ministerial intern at the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA, and am now a Unitarian Universalist Minister.

I became involved in human rights activism in 2006 and have since become an out lesbian activist, working with the noted attorney and human rights activist Maurice Tomlinson and others in Jamaica and the US. I am a 2014 graduate of the International Emerging Leaders program at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

Angeline Jackson with Former US President Barack Obama and President and First Lady Biden (when he was Vice President)

In 2015, President Barack Obama recognized me as one of Jamaica’s remarkable young leaders at the Town Hall for Youth in Kingston, Jamaica.

I have also received the Hero Award from Saint Paul’s Foundation for International Reconciliation for my work on LGBTQ rights in Jamaica, the 2016 Troy Perry Medal of Pride award, the International Youth Icon Award from the Florida Youth Pride Coalition in 2017, and the 2022 LGBT Advocate of the Year Award.

Over the years I have 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.

I have published several writings on the LGBT situation in Jamaica and has been quoted and interviewed for numerous media outlets and literature. I am also a fellow of the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum.

I am the author of Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica and continue my LGBTQ work through a small church ministry, guest preaching, public speaking, and as an expert witness on asylum cases for LGBTQ Jamaicans.