Rev. Angeline
C.L.C., M.B.A., M.Div
Public Speaker, LGBTQ Human Rights Activist, Unitarian Universalist Minister, Life Coach, and Expert Witness.
ANGELINE C. JACKSON (she/her) is an international expert in LGBTQ+ education, a Lambda Literary Finalist, and the former Executive Director and co-founder of Quality of Citizenship Jamaica. She served as the ministerial intern at Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church from September 2021 through June 2023, when she earned her Master of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School, having studied as a recipient of the Christianson Family Scholarship.
Born in St. Ann, Jamaica, Angeline started working in human rights & LGBTQ+ activism in 2006 and soon after became the first known publicly-out lesbian activist in Jamaica. She is a 2014 International Emerging Leaders program graduate from the Los Angeles LGBT Center. In 2015, President Barack Obama recognized Angeline as one of Jamaica's remarkable young leaders at the Town Hall for Youth in Kingston, Jamaica. Ms. Jackson is the 2022 J-FLAG Advocate of the Year recipient, the 2017 International Youth Icon Award from the Florida Youth Pride Coalition, the 2016 Troy Perry Medal of Pride award, and the 2014 recipient of the Hero Award from Saint Paul's Foundation for International Reconciliation for her work on LGBTQ rights in Jamaica.
Over the years, Angeline has presented at various events and panels, including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: Creating Change. She was the keynote speaker at the 2023 Lesbian Day of Visibility event for a Fortune 500 company and is a fellow of the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum. In 2018, she began providing expert witness services for LGBTQ asylum seekers and started her ministry sUUstenance.LGBT to support her broader ministry specific to the LGBTQ+ community.
Angeline's LGBTQ+ activism plays a big part in her entrepreneurial ministry. In 2023, she authored Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica. She has written for The Advocate, Time Magazine, and The Jamaica Gleaner and is cited in multiple academic papers and books.
As a Christian-adjacent and panentheist Unitarian Universalist, Angeline draws from a variety of spiritual influences, including Atheist and womanist authors, Science of the Mind, and Process theology, which help her make sense of the world, her place in it, and her relationship with and experience of the Divine. She is very excited to begin her first settled ministry at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis, California, this August.
