Jacqueline Isaac

Jacqueline Isaac is an estate planning lawyer located in San Diego with a statewide practice in California.

Isaac is on the advisory board of the United States Homeland Security, an adjunct professor at Pepperdine School of Law and has given lectures at Berkeley School of Law, Maryland School of Law, Trinity School of Law and other universities across the country.

Her work has been featured on BBC, C-SPAN, NBC, FOX, ABC, Guardian, Huffington Post, TEDx, KUSI, San Diego Magazine, San Diego Business Journal, Catholic EWTN, LOGOS Coptic TV, Arabic television such as Al-Arrabiya, and other international media outlets.

Isaac received a Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law where she served as the President of the Human Rights Society. Isaac began studying at Vanguard University in California with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Minor in Business Administration. She was the President of Pi Sigma Alpha, a political science honors society, and studied at Oxford University. Isaac was awarded the 2019 Healing Heart Award by the Women of Global Change and the 2017 Woman of the Year-Rising Star award by San Diego Magazine. Isaac graduated from University of San Diego School of Law.

She has testified at the US Congress, appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Council and has spoken at United Nations headquarters, the UK Parliament and European Union.

Isaac previously partnered with His Royal Highness Prince Mired Raad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan to undergo relief campaigns sending aid and spreading awareness of the current situation of refugees. Isaac was later responsible for His Royal Highness’ official San Diego tour where she organized business roundtables, media opportunities and meetings with government leaders. On this trip, His Royal Highness was awarded the key of the City of San Diego by the Mayor’s office.

Isaac is also an international lawyer, speaker and vice president of Roads of Success (ROS), a humanitarian NGO which provides aid, medical assistance, education and advocacy for women and persecuted minorities. Isaac is a member of the steering board of the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Government Office’s Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative alongside Her Royal Highness Sophie Countess of Wessex. Under the United Kingdom’s leadership, Isaac was a drafter of the Declaration of Humanity by Leaders of Faith and Leaders of Belief and helped bring religious leaders worldwide to sign.

Isaac recently participated in launching the Universal Rights Academy and the Empower Women Media’s eCourse for Religious Freedom and Human Rights titled Live What You Believe where she discusses strategies to promote gender equality and religious freedom globally.

Isaac, who works with faith communities globally, speaks in front of thousands of youth, women and audiences such as at Catholic World Youth Day encouraging them to take a stand for justice.

Issac, in partnership with Ancient Gates and the foundation of a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dennis Mukwege, currently run wellness experiences for the mind utilizing the internet to provide healing for girls and boys who have escaped sexual violence and survived severe traumatic experiences.

Isaac was born and raised in Los Angeles and then moved to Egypt with her family as a teenager. Upon her college graduation, she traveled through rural areas of Egypt developing a short documentary and project to decrease female genital mutilation.