Press & Speaking

A career in the public record — and a voice still in demand.

Selected media features, speeches, panels, and recognition. For media inquiries, please contact press at the address below.

As Featured In

Coverage and conversation.

Selected Engagements

Speeches, panels & features.

A selection of recent and notable engagements. For a full list and to inquire about booking, please get in touch.

JL

California Women's Law Center — Distinguished Guest Speaker Series

On leadership, the long road for women in law, and the cost and reward of public service.

JL

USC Gould — Prosecution & Reform: A Conversation

A conversation with law students and faculty on prosecutorial discretion, reform, and the next generation of leaders.

JL

UCI Stories — From Crenshaw to the Courtroom

UC Irvine's profile of its alumna and her path from psychology major to the office of the District Attorney.

JL

Final Address as District Attorney

Reflections on eight years in office, the people who made the work possible, and the work that remains.

JL

Mental Health & the Justice System

Keynote on the design of LA County's mental-health diversion framework and the lessons for jurisdictions across the country.

JL

PBS NewsHour — On Hate Crimes & Public Trust

A long-form conversation on the prosecution of hate-motivated crime and the role of the DA in moments of national tension.

What Audiences Say

From the lectern to the boardroom.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Jackie's keynote landed differently than any speaker we'd hosted in years. She made a room of two hundred lawyers stop, listen, and rethink what leadership in public service actually demands.
Bar Association President Statewide CLE conference
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
We brought Jackie in to advise our policy team during a leadership transition. Calm, clear, and unsparingly honest. We came out of those sessions with a better plan and a clearer sense of who we wanted to be.
Executive Director Justice Reform Foundation
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Her ability to speak about the hardest parts of the job — without spin and without sentimentality — gave our students a window into the profession that no textbook could.
Dean of Students Top-20 US law school
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Jackie was an essential expert in our matter. Her testimony was clear, grounded in lived experience, and impossible to undermine on cross.
Lead Counsel National civil-rights law firm
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
We invited her to keynote our women-in-leadership summit. She has a way of telling the truth that makes you want to live up to it.
Conference Chair Women's Leadership Summit
Speaking Topics

Subjects Jackie has lived.

Topic · 01

Leadership in
Public Service

What it actually takes to run a thousand-attorney office serving ten million people, and the tradeoffs no campaign ever discusses.

Topic · 02

Women & the
Legal Profession

Forty years of progress, the work that remains, and what the profession owes the next generation of women in law.

Topic · 03

Mental Health
& Justice

A practitioner's view of how prosecutors can lead — or hinder — the redesign of how the system meets people in crisis.

Topic · 04

Race, Hate Crimes
& the Courts

From prosecuting LA's first race-based hate-crime murder to leading an office responsible for one of the country's most diverse counties.

Topic · 05

Reform That
Holds

Why most reform announcements fail to outlive the administration that announced them — and the operational disciplines that make some last.

Topic · 06

Public Trust
in an Age of Distrust

How institutions earn back trust slowly, lose it quickly, and what leaders inside them can actually do about it.

Booking & Media

Inquire about speaking, press, or interviews.

Jackie reviews every booking inquiry personally. For working press, please use the press contact below.