Laila Lacy

LAILA LACY is the co-author of the award-winning book JUMP, My Secret Journey from the Streets to the Boardroom. A native of Philadelphia, PA, Lacy graduated from Central High School. She earned a degree from Howard University in Washington, DC, where she studied Psychology and Human Communications and has studied at New York’s Bank Street Graduate School of Education.

Lacy taught middle school for the New York Board of Education and later served as a business development manager for several mortgage banking firms in California. In addition to collaborating on her father’s memoir, she’s been a tutor, writing coach, school volunteer and written op-eds and product reviews that have been featured in the several online magazines.

She currently serves on the board of The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, an organization focused on banning juvenile life without parole and other extreme sentences for children. She lives in Southern California

with her husband and three children.