Sarah J. Jackson

Sarah J. Jackson is a Presidential Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center, specializing in race, media, and politics. She is the author of *A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom* (2026), *#HashtagActivism* (2020), and *Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press* (2014). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and she was a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.