Ida Louise Jackson was an educator and university administrator who served as the Dean of Women at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Born in 1902 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, she earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1922 and her master’s in 1923, in addition to founding the university’s first sorority for African American women, Alpha Kappa Alpha. Following her graduation, she became the first African American woman to teach in Oakland public schools, where she worked as a high school teacher and academic counselor for nearly 30 years. With the support of Alpha Kappa Alpha and the NAACP Educational Committee, she established a summer school and healthcare clinic for teachers in Mississippi, as well as a dental clinic for the Oakland community. In this interview, Jackson discusses her experiences as a university student, an Oakland teacher, an administrator at Tuskegee, and a sorority president.