Jason Clark is a Father, mentor as well as Director and Consultant for Northwest Credible Messenger (NWCM), a Capacity Building organization focused on empowering the next generation of local Black and Brown leadership. Previously, as a Project Manager Jason has had success in both City and County level positions. 

As an Equity and Justice Advocate for King County Superior Court, Jason utilized his skills set to sharpen the Procedural Justice lens of the largest trial court in the state of Washington, through training all staff and judicial officers, policy advocacy and building alternatives to incarceration for King County Juvenile Court Services. As a Project Manager for the City of Seattle, Jason was laser focused on growing the leadership of various government depts and community partnerships through Racial Equity, Experiential Learning Theory, and Healing Centered Engagement.  

A major focus of his work prior to starting NWCM was the Equity Impact Review, ensuring that equity impacts were the focus and consideration of the design and implementation of proposed actions of Superior Court programs and projects impacting target communities, undoing institutional barriers and archaic policies and procedures negatively impacting local communities.   

Jason utilizes his personal and professional experience to build bridges of transformation between communities and systems throughout Washington and is laser-focused on justice reform. Whether it’s empowering new and emerging or previously incarcerated leaders to achieve their professional goals, providing strategic advice on policy analysis and program development for city, county, and state leadership, or building programs to impact the school-to-prison pipeline, Jason is committed to effectuating change and impacting justice reform in Washington State through community-level consortium efforts focused on capacity building, policy advocacy and positive youth justice.   

Jason is a 2019 JULSA Leading with Conviction Fellow, 2019 Civil Survival Justice in Policy Fellow, has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration, is a certified Project Manager and his organization, NWCM, is the Washington State Ambassador for CM3, the National Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement.