Carleton Convo with Jazz Hampton | September 29, 2023

Carleton Convos

Jazz Hampton is CEO and general counsel at TurnSignl, a Minnesota-based company that provides real-time legal guidance and de-escalation from attorneys to drivers who have been stopped by law enforcement or were involved in a car crash. Hampton delivered the convocation address at Carleton's Skinner Chapel on Friday, September 29.

TurnSignl is a proudly Black-owned tech company with an app that allows users to initiate a video call with an attorney at the moment of a traffic stop or car crash. The app also features automatic front-camera recording of the interaction, which is stored and encrypted in the user’s cloud. TurnSignl’s mission is for everybody to get home safe, including drivers and law enforcement. Launched in 2021, TurnSignl was created in the wake of the murders of Philando Castile, George Floyd, and Daunte Wright as a solution to bridge the gap between law enforcement and drivers. In his TurnSignl introduction, Hampton said, “We want everyone to be safe and to be empowered.” TurnSignl has been featured by NBC segments Top Story and Nightly News with Lester Holt and on MSNBC.

Hampton was named one of Minneapolis–St. Paul’s 40 Under 40 for his work at TurnSignl and in the Twin Cities community. He also sits on the Board of Directors at the Minneapolis Foundation and Catholic Charities Twin Cities and is a Philanthropic Advisory Council member for the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain. Before joining TurnSignl, Hampton was a practicing attorney and the director of DEI at the national law firm Foley & Mansfield, as well as an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

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