Kimi Jackson graduated from UWC-USA in 1992. Her career started in journalism, and then she studied law. She graduated with a juris doctorate from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2000 and became licensed to practice law in Colorado that same year. Her 20-year legal career included representing migrant farm workers, university students, and detained immigrants facing deportation proceedings. For nine years she directed the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project, a non-profit project of the American Bar Association, at the Texas/Mexico border. Despite having lived in North Dakota, New Mexico, Colorado, Bolivia, Japan and Texas, Kimi hasn’t lost her accent from her home state of Minnesota.