Jacqui Patterson

Jacqui is the founder and executive director of The Chisholm Legacy Project and prior Senior Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program for 10+ years. Patterson has dedicated her career to intersectional approaches to systems change, having served as coordinator & co-founder of Women of Color United; Senior Women’s Rights Policy Analyst for ActionAid; Assistant Vice-President of HIV/AIDS Programs for IMA World Health, Outreach Project Associate for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Research Coordinator for Johns Hopkins University. At Mesa Refuge, she worked on a reflection/lessons learned article on the first three years of a start-up organization.