My Story






I grew up in New Hampshire, the son of a Trinidadian mother and a father from Florida.  My life was jampacked with accents, questions, and conversations.


I’ve worked across the specturm of communication, strategy, and go-to-market, but my sweetspot is building narrative ecosystems and operating systems for delivering new ideas and brands that delight people, drive revenue,  and create new market opportunities.


For a (more)  comprehensive breakdown, LinkedIn should suffice.  





PROFESSIONAL BIO


Jonathan Jackson is an award-winning creative leader, writer, and thinker, who sits at the intersection of community, commerce, and culture.   In 2014, he co-founded  Blavity Inc,  the largest digital media company focused on  Black millennials,  reaching over 150M 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,  researching  how to  storytelling can enable creative institutions and reimagine the stories and infrastructure of emergent places.  



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