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Hope Heartbreak and Many lawyers are passionate about their work, but Michele Jackson, ‘00, and her IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT MICHELE JACKSON’S PASSION COMES FROM HAVING VISITED ORPHANAGES in Mexico, India, Honduras, Ukraine and other countries throughout the world, seeing first-hand the plight of children who are waiting for a home. Jackson is founder of MLJ Adoptions, an Indianapolis-based adoption agency that has facilitated hundreds of international and domestic adoptions with American families. She’s also founder of the Fatherless Foundation, a non-profit she established to assist abandoned and orphaned children worldwide. There’s certainly no shortage of children needing help: UNICEF estimates that 143 million children in the developing world—one in every 13—are orphans. I U S C H O O L O F L AW S U M M E R A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E Conflict, disease, poverty, and natural disasters, such as the earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, all contribute to an international crisis. On a recent trip to Haiti in May, Jackson met with orphanage directors and public officials who might be able to assist in her helping clients who are interested in adopting Haitian orphans. “The earthquake devastation was overwhelming,” she says. “Prior to the earthquake, there were an estimated 350,000 orphans and today there could be two to three times that.” Inspired—and Inspiring The Anderson, Indiana native traces her interest to service trips and study abroad experiences
colleagues feel a calling beyond the typical professional. she did as an undergraduate at Anderson University and, later, in law school. “I was interested in international relations, but I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do,” Jackson says of her undergraduate experience. Law school provided the direction. Jackson participated in the law school’s International Law program in Lille, France and worked as a legal associate in Ottawa, Ontario, conducting legal research regarding sexual exploitation of women and children as an intern through the law school’s Program in International Human Rights Law. Representing a client on an adoption case in the law school Civil Practice Clinic and a seminar on adoption law further inspired her focus. Michele Jackson, ‘00, holds an orphaned child during one of her international visits. By Alicia Dean Carlson After earning her law degree, Jackson went on to practice family law and legal consulting for international organizations. But adoption law has always been a specialty beginning with her first clients and their adoptions from Ukraine, Haiti and Guatemala. She also began traveling—India, Brazil, Nepal and Vietnam, are among the countries where she’s worked and visited in recent years—researching and presenting at international conferences on the subject of international adoption. An adjunct professor at the law school, Jackson has taught international and comparative family law and international organizations law, and currently divides her time between MLJ Adoptions and Jocham Harden Dimick Jackson, PC., I U S C H O O L O F L AW S U M M E R A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E
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