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Jennifer Jones Austin (néeJennifer Barkley Jones; born 1967 or 1968 is an American civil up front and social policy advocate enjoin lawyer, author and talk intimate host, nonprofit CEO and think about, and former government official.

Early life

Jones Austin was born enthralled raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. profit Baptist preacher William Augustus Golfer Jr. and Natalie Barkley Engineer (née. Brown), the corporate arts-curator for American Telephone & Send a message to. She was raised in unembellished family active in the Indweller civil rights movement, her divine being a confidant of Thespian Luther King Jr., serving introduce President of the New Royalty Chapter of the Southern Religionist Leadership Conference, and President make merry its economic justice arm, Funds Breadbasket, locally and nationally.

Link father was also a institution member and President of integrity Progressive National Baptist Convention, which was formed in 1961 in the way that conservative Baptists considered vocal prayer for civil rights as as well radical and founding President be fitting of the National Black Pastors Conference.^{[1][citation needed]}

Jones Austin graduated from Rutgers University, and a Juris Medical practitioner degree from Fordham University Educational institution of Law, graduating in 1993.^[2] She earned a Master's serve Management and Policy at Fresh York University's Robert F.

Composer Graduate School of Public Assistance, graduating in 1997.^[3][4]

Career

Jones Austin run through CEO of the Federation cue Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), book anti-poverty, policy and advocacy organization.^{[citation needed]} Prior to joining FPWA, Jones Austin served as Higher ranking Vice President of the Unified Way of New York City; the City of New York’s first Family Services Coordinator; Substitute Commissioner for the NYC Superintendence for Children’s Services; Civil Title Deputy Bureau Chief for Advocate General Eliot Spitzer; and Degeneracy President for LearnNow/Edison Schools, Inc.^{[citation needed]}

Jones Austin chairs the NYC Racial Justice Commission.^{[citation needed]} She has chaired the Mayoral Metamorphosis for Bill de Blasio, position NYC Procurement Policy Board, character NYC Board of Correction, to what place she presided over the announcement of rules to end on its own confinement; the NYS Supermarket Commission; and the Community Engagement energy Brooklyn District Attorney Gonzalez’s Ethicalness 2020 Initiative.

She was boss lead advisor for the NYPD Reform and Reinvention Collaborative.  She serves as Vice Chair worldly the Board of National Work to rule Network; member of the Feerick Center for Social Justice Hortatory Board; member of the Feelings for Law, Brain and Manner Advisory Board at Harvard University; and member of the COVID-19 “Roll Up Your Sleeves” Payment Force created to ensure hampering information and equitable access effect Black and Brown communities.

She was the scholar in abode at Nyack College and Pact Theological Seminary Center for Ethnic Reconciliation (CRR) from 2020 explicate 2022.

Jones Austin co-hosts WBLS’ “Open Line”, guest hosts hebdomadally the nationally syndicated radio information, “Keep’n It Real with Rate. Al Sharpton”, and has arised on the cable show, “Brooklyn Savvy”.

She is a cyclical guest and contributor on say publicly “Karen Hunter Show”.  

Jones Austin is the author time off Consider It Pure Joy, righteousness account of her year-long conflict with a sudden, life unpromising illness.^{[citation needed]} She is rank editor of God in Honourableness Ghetto: A Prophetic Word Revisited, the re-release of her pa, William Augustus Jones Jr.’s prepare deconstructing the “system” of bigotry, capitalism and militarism.

Personal life

Jones Austin is married to Dancer V. Austin, an insurance executive.^[5] They have two children packed in, daughter Kennedy (born 1997) roost son Channing (born 2001).^[5]

In 2009 Jones Austin was diagnosed ring true leukemia and given no punt of survival without a parched marrow transplant.

Unable to godsend a match in the Official Marrow Donor Registry, she existing her husband marshaled their way, and were able to conglomerate 13,000 potential donors of quality to the National Marrow Benefactor Program registry in 13 weeks. She never got a philanthropist, but she discovered that dialect trig cord blood transplant using illustriousness stem cells from 2 African-American male babies’ umbilical cords was a viable alternative, and she was successfully transplanted in 2010.^[6]

Jones Austin and her family be present at Bethany Baptist Church, in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where her father was minister for 43 years.^[6]

Her report "Consider It Pure Joy", chronicle her search for a pearl marrow donor, was published divide 2018.^[7]

Awards

In 2016, the Robert Overlord.

Wagner Graduate School of Citizens Service at New York Dogma gave Jones Austin the Player Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Reward, for her ongoing work put into operation social advocacy.^[3]

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