Vilma Jackson

In 2020 Jackson wrote, produced and performed in a short film, "Triple Oppression", which deals with the challenges she faces as Black, Deaf and a woman.

Jackson grew up in Mozambique and attended boarding school in Portugal, before moving to London, where she attended Harrow College studying Performing Arts and also trained in the Meisner Acting Technique.

Her career spans film, stage, television drama, music video, public service broadcasting and theatre credits.

[1] She has collaborated with deaf poet Raymond Antrobus in a performance that blends his poem "Dear hearing world" with music and sign language.

[4] She is a dancer and sign-song performer and she uses her performance to discuss in Sign Language essential issues such as cultural appropriation and the Black Lives Matter movement.