Miss Juanita Elizabeth Jackson, of Baltimore, Maryland, will join the national office staff of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People, September 15. Her duties will include field work, especially among the youth division and junior branches and with church groups, both young people and adults.

Miss Jackson, despite her youth, has been active in national movements among young people for the past five years. She was born in Hot Springs, Ark., but grew up and was educated in the public schools of Baltimore. She was graduated from the Frederick Douglass high school there in 1927. She attended Morgan college, but received her B.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1931. She taught in the Baltimore schools and returned to the University of Pennsylvania last year and secured her M.A. degree in sociology in June, 1935.

For three summers she travelled [sic] extensively through the South, Middle West and Far West for the Methodist Episcopal church. She is vice president of the National Council of Youth of the M.E. church, an organization composed of 18,000 Methodist yout h groups. Perhaps Miss Jackson is best known as the founder and president of the City-Wide Young People's Forum of Baltimore, which holds meetings throughout the winter, regularly attracting audiences of 1,500 to 2,000 persons. Miss Jackson is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, of the American Sociological society, the women's auxiliary of the Baltimore Urban League, and the executive committee of the Baltimore N.A.A.C.P. She was secretary of the interracial commission at the University of Pennsylvania and a member there of the Y.W.C.A. cabinet. In July of this year she was a scholarship student at the Institute of Race Relations at Swarthmore college. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keiffer A. Jackson, 1216 Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore.