Zahn Jackson-Garrett is an artist, technologist, scholar, and consultant working to connect American and West African port cities by building bridges across Web 2.5 and Web 3. Based on the East and West coasts of the Atlantic, Jackson-Garrett prototypes technology and social media projects that recover lost histories and shed light on slave descendent and Free Black narratives, making works of art, scholarship, and new media accessible to global Black and indigenous audiences in popular contexts. With a Bachelor’s Degree in Peace Studies from George Washington University and a professional background in digital communications, Jackson-Garrett works to disrupt historical and intergenerational trauma, as well as unresolved, disenfranchised, and cultural grief, and ambiguous loss, by designing transformative socio-technical gatherings, cultural materials, and experiences that foster transcultural knowledge exchange on the land.
