Bacardi Jackson
Bacardi Jackson is the Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida, where she leads the organization’s work to defend civil liberties and protect constitutional rights across the state during a time of intense legal and political challenges.
Before joining the ACLU of Florida, Jackson served as Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Democracy: Education and Youth team, where she helped lead advocacy and litigation aimed at dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline and expanding equitable access to public education across the Deep South.
A seasoned trial attorney with more than 25 years of litigation experience, Jackson has argued cases in state, federal, and administrative courts and represented clients ranging from individuals and civil rights advocates to universities and major institutions.
She earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her law degree from Yale Law School.