Sarah J. Jackson, Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow, is writing a cultural history of Black American mediamakers that traces their contributions to US democracy. Jackson is Presidential Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Formerly a fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, she is also a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She co-directs the Media, Inequality & Change Center. She holds a MA from the University of Michigan, a PhD from the University of Minnesota, and is the author of Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press (2014) and #HashtagActivism (2020).
