Bio
Barry Jefferson is the President of the Jacksonville Arkansas NAACP. Jefferson was first elected as President in 2018 and is now serving his 3rd team as the Branch President. Mr. Jefferson was elected as NAACP Arkansas State Conference President in September 2023. Mr. Jefferson is Partner with Lance Jones & Associates.
A successful entrepreneur and political operative, his passion has always been education, community, non-profit management, and voter engagement. The Lance Jones & Associates, provides general consulting in the public and private sector for non-profit consultation, business development, leadership training, board training, campaigns, candidates, and higher education interests. Along with managing public affairs and issue-based campaigns, he spearheads faith outreach; planning, budgeting and fiscal policies of campaigns with statewide literature distribution; and time line development, in addition to other services. Barry has consulted and worked for several candidates in Arkansas and across the country including presidential campaigns, governor campaign, State House and Senate campaigns, issue-based campaigns and local races. Barry is also the Director of Environment Service with CARTI Cancer Center.
Featured work
![Khadidah Stone stands on the dividing line between her old Alabama congressional District 7, to her right with River City Church, and her new district, District 2, to her left, in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 20, 2022. The Supreme Court’s decision last June siding with Black voters on a redistricting case in Alabama gave Democrats and voting rights activists a surprise opportunity ahead of the 2024 elections to have congressional maps redrawn in a handful of states. Fast forward three months and maps in Alabama and other states that could produce more districts represented by Black lawmakers still don’t exist.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/02/khadidah-stone-s-400x266.jpg)
Feb 15, 2024
3 States, 3 Plaintiffs, and the Fight for Fair District Maps