Angela Jackson

About Angela

• When I was young, I was determined to become the next Oprah.
• I started working for my school’s newspaper when I was in sixth grade and continued all throughout middle and high school.
• I went to the University of Missouri-Columbia, the number one journalism school that year, and earned bachelor’s degrees in journalism and history.
• After graduating, I got a job at a TV station but realized that it wasn’t right for me—I loved journalism but realized that the news and the framework and culture around it didn’t resonate with me.
• I decided to make a career change and landed a temp job at Sony Pictures in the marketing department.
• From there, I built my career in business and marketing, and then worked my way into entrepreneurship.
• I eventually started volunteering at schools, speaking to students about my career and using my marketing experience to help principals implement new strategies—in doing so, I had found my niche.
• I now work as the CEO of Future Forward Strategies, a labor market analytics firm, and as a lecturer at Harvard University, teaching about entrepreneurship in the education marketplace.