Zahn Jackson-Garrett is a strategist who translates social media insight into prototypes, partnerships, and pilots that stakeholders can act on. Guided by a port-city lens from Baltimore to Dakar, she leads campaigns and convenings that bring public, private, and civic actors into shared plans and joint action. With a Bachelor’s degree in Peace Studies from George Washington University and a professional background in digital communications, her practice aligns platform participation with the systems that make it possible—connectivity and energy—and advances job creation through implementable pilots, grounded in human agency, accountable technology, and shared tools others can adopt and build on.
A 2026 Fulbright Study & Research grantee, she leads “Social Media as an Economic Development Mechanism in Senegal and Its Iconic Regions.” Her research examines smartphone-based platform work in Senegal’s village and island economies and develops adoptable models that build pathways for villagers and islanders—often intermittently connected—to move from platform participation into paid work and workforce pipelines across AI data, digital services, and trade-linked platform economies. Working across English, Wolof, and Pulaar, she designs for real-world platform use and adoption in African-language contexts and builds implementation models that hold across sectors and institutions.
