[1] Earlier, he was senior associate dean of Harvard's Kennedy School during its formative growth years.
From 1983 to 1987 he served as Massachusetts Commissioner of Revenue, and was chief of staff for Boston Mayor Kevin White.
[4] Earlier, he was appointed as the first president and CEO of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.
He was Vice Provost of the University of Massachusetts Boston and Dean of the John W. McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies.
[7] Jackson is a co-founder of the Civic Action Project,[8] a program designed to accelerate social progress and change by equipping diverse next-generation leaders with the hard and soft skills they need to succeed in public policy.