Jeri L Wright
Jeri L. Wright, daughter, sister, mother, widow, Godmother, family-oriented, faithful friend, and servant, is the epitome of perseverance. Self-described as “love in action,” Jeri daily strives to be the best sermon anyone has ever seen.
For over 17 years, Jeri created and built a multi-million dollar media services department for the largest church in the United Church of Christ denomination. Under her leadership the media department grew from a staff of one to a paid staff of 30 and 300 unpaid ministry partners, and housed six factions of media: audio/video productions, the bookstore, publications, reproduction services, reprographics, and an internationally distributed newsmagazine. Not only was Jeri the department director, she was the editor-in-chief of the newsmagazine, having taken the pastor’s request to transform it from a church magazine into a worldwide newsmagazine for the socially conscious.
Throughout the course of this 17-year journey, Jeri honed such competencies as new business development, relationship building, public relations, branding, copyrighting, communication, media consulting, project management, strategic planning, non-profit consulting, staff management, policy development, budget planning and preparation, community organizing, fundraising, training and development, program development, writing, editing, and publishing.
As a result of the 2008 Presidential Campaign, the entire Wright family’s lives were turned upside down. From the most horrific media hell storm that caused death threats against Jeri’s father and her, to unjust imprisonment, Jeri Wright continues to stand strong on her faith. A survivor of injustices and incarceration, Jeri is now the founder of an organization birthed from a vision God gave her during her time of incarceration, The Butterfly Effect, Inc., NFP.
The “butterfly effect” is the concept that small causes can have large effects. The Butterfly Effect, Inc. seeks to cultivate social consciousness and awareness, encompassing the issue of unjust and disproportionate mass incarceration particularly of women of color, and the helplessness experienced during incarceration, up to and including the re-entry process, in an effort to provide assistance to female survivors of injustice and incarceration, their children and families. It is The Butterfly Effect’s mission to actively support and provide assistance to women, emphasizing healing as they grow through the re-entry process, re-establishing life, and re-learning what it means to be a free citizen, by offering life skills, life coaching, counseling, educational resources, job readiness training, the ministry of presence, and more.
Additionally, The Butterfly Effect, Inc. NFP serves by educating and enhancing institutions’, churches’, and other charitable organizations’ awareness of the need for support from the village. One of the prolific goals of The Butterfly Effect, Inc. is to partner these institutions with women re-entering the community, in an effort to equip them with all they need to succeed, focusing on their individual journeys to excellence.
Jeri L. Wright is the founder and CEO of L2 Productions, a leading integrated production firm with specialized capabilities in media, technological and live event planning and production, whose unique capabilities are exemplified where social justice, politics, businesses (both profit and non-profit), and media intersect.
Jeri also owns and operates Wrighting Memories, writing, editing, producing, and publishing all genres of works including obituaries, audio/visual products, video tributes, magazines, and books.
In addition to building these businesses and organizations, Jeri now holds the title of author, with her first book launching November 2017. She is actively engaged in worldwide ministry. Jeri is an alumnus of Virginia Union University and Lutheran School of Theology Chicago, and is presently in the process of completing her Masters of Divinity.
Jeri is the proud mother of Jeremiah A. “JA” Wright-Haynes.