EDUCATOR

Jackson is an Associate Professor of filmmaking in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. He teaches directing, thesis projects, episodic projects, and production courses.

Jackson was co-founder of the UC Irvine Digital Filmmaking program. The DigiFilm program mixed traditional film school production training with creative, experimental approaches to storytelling. The program was majority BIPOC, Women and LGBTQ+ students. Jackson developed and led a range of directing and production courses, and supervised advanced projects. He led a three-quarter studio that explored narrative, design, and interactivity. His courses produced collaborative web series projects and an award-winning series of immersive audio walks. He established the International Documentary Projects program that sent student filmmakers on four-week shoots to sites of social justice, environmental action, and community empowerment programs in Nepal, Paraguay and South Africa.