William Jackson, Ph.D.

William Jackson is the founder and “Chief Dreamer” of Village of Wisdom that engages parents, school leaders, non-profit leaders and community members to recognize the negative cognitive implication of racial bias on black students. William works with these same stakeholders to build strategies that help Black youth navigate and heal from the racial bias they are exposed to, especially those that occur in educational environments. Through this work, he has led his team at Village of Wisdom to create tools designed to help youth heal from racial bias experiences, develop racial bias resilience capacities (e.g., racial comeback lines) and identify how their interests align with social justice activities: two such tools are the Racial Genius Profile and the Racial Stress Coping Plan.