Phenomenally You Podcast

Join host Nicole Quinlan-Lee as she interviews Los Angeles Mayoral candidate John Jackson. 

John Jackson born into a US military family in the Philippine Islands and brought to the US, San Francisco, California when he was 9 months old, however he spent much of his time growing up in the Philippine Islands on a military base.  John returned to the US and went to Eastern New Mexico University at Roswell (ENMU-R) where he was President of his Freshman Class, creator of the Afro-Student Union and Council member of AMAS (Associate Mexica American Students).  While still in College John ran for the Mayor of Roswell, getting his first experience and exposure to real politics.  This being commendable at the age of 19 years old.  
John went on to join the Air Force in 1972.  Completing his education in 1975 while in the Air Force at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh with a Liberal Arts degree with four majors in Political Science, Communications, Criminology and Sociology.  He later received a Honorable Discharge from the Air Force and went on to further his education at Western State University of Law, at Fullerton.
John has a strong passion for helping people and has spent most of his adult life helping impoverished communities with his own money.  As a child in the Philippines; he would work with the local church where homelessness and poverty surrounding them was far worst than what it is here in Los Angeles.  John has housed many homeless people in Los Angeles in his various properties.  He has given many of them the last 30 years jobs working for his company.  He also hired the majority of his employees throughout the years from the Employment Development Department.  He received an award from the State of California for hiring the most handicapped in the state of California.  John continues to strive and be successful even today.