Charisse Jackson

Charisse Jackson is the Program Director for The National Conference for Community and Justice of Metropolitan St. Louis. She manages and directs all strategies related to research, advocacy and program delivery.  

Charisse's programs include the Dismantling Racism Institute for Educators, Anytown Youth Leadership Institute and Dismantling Racism-Classism Institute. She also directs various trainings and consultations for the Corporate, Educational, and Non-Profit sectors locally and nationally.  She has been actively engaged in anti-oppression work since her Dismantling Racism Institute experience in 1997 and considers her anti-oppression work a passion and a life-long endeavor.

Charisse Jackson

Before coming to NCCJSTL in 2001, Charisse served as volunteer staff for NCCJSTL's Anytown Youth Leadership Institute in 1999, 2000, and 2001.  She served on faculty for Dismantling Racism Institute XI in 2002 and co-taught Human Diversity at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.  She served as Director of Multicultural Affairs and teacher of Earth and Environmental Science and other electives at Crossroads School.  Charisse participated as a member of the 2000 and 2003 Tavistock Group Relations Conferences and served on the staff as Administrator and Associate Administrator for the 2001 and 2002 conferences, respectively.

Charisse serves on several community collaborations including the LGBTA Coalition, Making Schools Safe Committee, the LGBTA Community Center Planning Committee, the Anti-Violence Project, the Racial Education Equity Committee, The Youth Development Provider Network, St. Louis Effort for Aids, and GLSEN.