Pronouns: She/Her

Urana Jackson (she/her) is a space holder, healing justice practitioner, and psychotherapist. She has worked in community-based mental health for over 25 years, and most recently oversaw the mental health programming for middle schools in Oakland Unified School District. She was an instructor for a course on Restorative Justice for 18 years at UC Berkeley School of Law’s,  Summer Legal Fellowship Program. Urana is the published author of Girls Rising (Parallax  Press, 2015) and the creator of  “Ancestor’s Keeper,” a curriculum for adolescent youth around racial trauma and healing. Urana was initiated in the Isese, West African spiritual tradition in 2006.  Urana is the creator of a psycho-spiritual therapeutic modality called Safe House Seven which integrates various western therapeutic modalities, Isese spiritual technologies and plant medicine for BIPOC communities. Urana is a devotee of Onile/Mother Earth, daughter, partner, bonus mom and loyal servant to two Siamese cats.