Before she was old enough to attend elementary school, Miracle Jones learned many challenging and impactful life lessons. The incarceration of her father when she was just a child changed the trajectory of her entire life. While the situation gave her a crash course in how systems impact one’s daily life, it also introduced her to community support and mutual aid organizing. At the time, she had no idea that she would find her life’s work rise out of her family’s struggle, leading her to become a community organizer and queer activist.
Miracle has dedicated numerous years mobilizing against prison systems and violence. Her work focuses on implementing abolition-based principles and transformative justice through advocacy, art, policy, and writing. She has organized programs in Georgia, Illinois, and Pennsylvania to raise concerns about violence, discrimination, and gentrification.
Miracle Jones serves as the Director of Advocacy and Policy at 1Hood Media Academy. In her role, she meets with stakeholders and impacted persons to engage around intersectional solutions to ensure communities are resourced and supported. She also ensures artists are a part of the conversations through the visioning process to show what liberated communities may look like.
As the director of legislative affairs for 1Hood Power, she serves in the political arena as a criminal justice strategist and an advocate for equity at the intersections of gender, race, disability, and class. She received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Georgia State University and the Community, Organization, and Social Action (COSA) MSW specialization at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. Miracle is a licensed attorney in New York and received her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
To continue to expand on the work that she has done and to honor her father’s life, she aspires to run a holistic re-entry program that serves to reconnect individuals with families and communities, prioritizing those who have been away for at least five years. She feels that a great deal of emotional and communal loss happens when people are incarcerated, so she desires to create a public-private partnership program that begins to help them prepare for their return home while also providing support to their family members and friends.
Miracle is looking forward to the time when she can travel the world like Anthony Bourdain and make connections with food, community, and culture.
