My Story
I grew up in New England, the son of a Trinidadian mother and a father from Florida.
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Jonathan Jackson is an award-winning creative leader, writer, and thinker, who sits at the intersection of community, commerce, an culture. In 2014, he co-founded Blavity Inc, the largest digital media company focused on Black audiences in the world, reaching over 100M consumers per month. He is a former Nieman-Berkman Klein fellow at Harvard University, where he studied Black cultural influence and intellectual property and how that is shaped both domestically and abroad. He’s held leadership posiitons at Westbrook Media, Standard Chartered Bank, and LinkedIn. Currently, he is a 2024 Global Fellow at the Ford Foundation, looking at how to storytelling can enable creative institutions and reimagine the stories and infrastructure of emergent places.
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