Obligatory Biography
M. Jackson Wilkinson is a technologist and designer based in Washington, DC who works to use technology in ways that support and build communities. He is also a writer, speaker, and musician.
Most recently, Jackson has been working with the amazing team of creative and technical folks at Grassroots Enterprise, an online public relations firm which seeks to use the internet to build communities and momentum around causes, companies, and products. Since at Grassroots, Jackson has worked in many different capacities, serving as a developer, designer, strategist, UI architect, writer, and educator.
In the DC area and nationwide, Jackson is an active part of the web design and development community, helping to coordinate Refresh DC, a community organization of the best and brightest web professionals in the Washington, DC region.
A classically-trained singer, Jackson is a member of the Master Chorale of Washington, Washington’s premiere symphonic choir, with which he has the opportunity to regularly perform at the Kennedy Center and with the National Symphony Orchestra. He previously studied voice pedagogy and music education at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, where he had a host of other great musical experiences. He also likes to sing more contemporary styles, singing with DC’s Augmented 8 as a bass and vocal percussionist. He has given seminars on vocal percussion, and is a member of the American Choral Directors Association.
Jackson is a Philadelphia native, and attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he graduated cum laude in Music and Philosophy. He makes his home online at Jounce.
