A spotlight on Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellow Jonathan Jackson

Published: Jan. 11, 2019, 8:34 p.m.

b'Jonathan Jackson is a co-founder of Blavity Inc., a technology and media company for black millennials. Blavity\\u2019s mission is to "economically and creatively support Black millennials across the African diaspora, so they can pursue the work they love, and change the world in the process." Blavity has grown immensely since their founding in 2014 \\u2014 among other things, spawning five unique sites, reaching over 7 million visitors a month, and organizing a number of technology, activism, and entrepreneurship conferences.\\n\\nJonathan Jackson is also a Joint Fellow with the Nieman Foundation and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society for 2018-2019. During his time here, he says, he is looking for frameworks and unique ways to measure black cultural influence (and the economic impact of black creativity) in the US and around the world.\\n\\nJonathan sat down with the Berkman Klein Center\\u2019s Victoria Borneman to talk about his work.\\n\\nMusic from this episode:\\n"Jaspertine" by Pling - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)\\n\\nMore information about this work, including a transcript, can be found here:\\nhttps://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2019-01/get-know-berkman-klein-fellow-jonathan-jackson'