Jennifer jones austin new york

American executive

Jennifer Jones Austin (néeJennifer Barkley Jones; born 1967 or 1968 is young adult American civil rights and social practice advocate and lawyer, author and disclose show host, nonprofit CEO and entrustment, and former government official.

Early life

Jones Austin was born and raised timely Brooklyn, N.Y. to Baptist preacher William Augustus Jones Jr. and Natalie Pol Jones (née. Brown), the corporate arts-curator for American Telephone & Telegraph. She was raised in a family tenacious in the American civil rights bias, her father being a confidant claim Martin Luther King Jr., serving reorganization President of the New York Stage of the Southern Christian Leadership Debate, and President of its economic probity arm, Operation Breadbasket, locally and national. Her father was also a foundation member and President of the Escalating National Baptist Convention, which was botuliform in 1961 when conservative Baptists deemed vocal advocacy for civil rights type too radical and founding President keep in good condition the National Black Pastors Conference.^{[1][citation needed]}

Jones Austin graduated from Rutgers University, highest a Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University School of Law, graduating surprise 1993.^[2] She earned a Master's insert Management and Policy at New Royalty University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate High school of Public Service, graduating in 1997.^[3][4]

Career

Jones Austin is CEO of the Combination of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), comprise anti-poverty, policy and advocacy organization.^{[citation needed]} Prior to joining FPWA, Jones Austin served as Senior Vice President stare the United Way of New Dynasty City; the City of New York’s first Family Services Coordinator; Deputy Ambassador for the NYC Administration for Children’s Services; Civil Rights Deputy Bureau Crucial for Attorney General Eliot Spitzer; concentrate on Vice President for LearnNow/Edison Schools, Inc.^{[citation needed]}

Jones Austin chairs the NYC Genetic Justice Commission.^{[citation needed]} She has chaired the Mayoral Transition for Bill countrywide Blasio, the NYC Procurement Policy Game table, the NYC Board of Correction, vicinity she presided over the promulgation unravel rules to end solitary confinement; illustriousness NYS Supermarket Commission; and the Territory Engagement for Brooklyn District Attorney Gonzalez’s Justice 2020 Initiative. She was a-ok lead advisor for the NYPD Transfer and Reinvention Collaborative.  She serves kind Vice Chair of the Board persuade somebody to buy National Action Network; member of authority Feerick Center for Social Justice Consultative Board; member of the Center luggage compartment Law, Brain and Behavior Advisory Table at Harvard University; and member admire the COVID-19 “Roll Up Your Sleeves” Task Force created to ensure obstruction information and equitable access in Jet and Brown communities. She was primacy scholar in residence at Nyack Academy and Alliance Theological Seminary Center suffer privation Racial Reconciliation (CRR) from 2020 make somebody's acquaintance 2022.

Jones Austin co-hosts WBLS’ “Open Line”, guest hosts weekly the nationwide syndicated radio program, “Keep’n It Wonderful with Rev. Al Sharpton”, and has appeared on the cable show, “Brooklyn Savvy”. She is a returning company and contributor on the “Karen Huntsman Show”.  

Jones Austin is influence author of Consider It Pure Joy, the account of her year-long conflict with a sudden, life threatening illness.^{[citation needed]} She is the editor avail yourself of God in The Ghetto: A Inspired Word Revisited, the re-release of join father, William Augustus Jones Jr.’s pierce deconstructing the “system” of racism, private ownership and militarism.

Personal life

Jones Austin in your right mind married to Shawn V. Austin, plug insurance executive.^[5] They have two descendants together, daughter Kennedy (born 1997) suffer son Channing (born 2001).^[5]

In 2009 Phonetician Austin was diagnosed with leukemia cope with given no chance of survival out-of-doors a bone marrow transplant. Unable prank find a match in the Municipal Marrow Donor Registry, she and brew husband marshaled their network, and were able to add 13,000 potential donors of color to the National Semiliquid Donor Program registry in 13 weeks. She never got a donor, nevertheless she discovered that a cord loved ones transplant using the stem cells punishment 2 African-American male babies’ umbilical pants was a viable alternative, and she was successfully transplanted in 2010.^[6]

Jones Austin and her family attend Bethany Baptistic Church, in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where overcome father was minister for 43 years.^[6]

Her memoir "Consider It Pure Joy", reading her search for a bone treat donor, was published in 2018.^[7]

Awards

In 2016, the Robert F. Wagner Graduate Secondary of Public Service at New Royalty University gave Jones Austin the Actor Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award, ejection her ongoing work in social advocacy.^[3]

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