Jennifer Jones Austin, Esq.

Jennifer Jones Austin serves as Senior Advisor to the Health Equity in Transplantation Coalition. Leukemia survivor and Cord Blood Transplantee; Fourth-generation leader of faith and social justice; CEO of FPWA, an anti-poverty, policy and advocacy organization; radio host; public speaker; author of Consider It Pure Joy; and editor of God in the Ghetto: A Prophetic Word Revisited. Visiting Scholar at the New York University Silver School of Social Work. Chaired NYC Racial Justice Commission, where she led the development and passage of three unprecedented proposals to amend the City of New York’s constitution to dismantle structural racism and embed racial justice and equity in all government functions; and the NYC Board of Correction where she presided over rule-making to end solitary confinement in New York City jails. Serves as Vice Chair of the National Action Network Board; founding commissioner of the NYS 400 Years of African-American History Commission; Fordham University Feerick Center for Social Justice Advisory Board member; and member of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior Advisory Board at Harvard University. Also served as co-chair of Mayoral Transition for Bill de Blasio, and lead advisor for Full Day UPK expansion and the 2020-2021 NYPD Reform and Reinvention Collaborative.