Reagan Jackson (she/her) is a multi-genre writer and artist, podcast host and producer, facilitator, and international educator. Most days you can find her at Young Women Empowered where she serves as the Co-Executive Director.

She has a MA in International Education from SIT Graduate Institute and has taken over 250 youth abroad. It is her joy to provide logistics and facilitation for transformative experiences. She was a co-creator in Blackout Healing, curating pop up affinity spaces dedicated to black healing in Seattle from 2020-2022 and has continued this work by designing black affinity programming for teens through Y-WE.

Reagan is the author of the IPPY award winning Still True: The Evolution of an Unexpected Journalist (March 2024, Hinton Publishing), Summoning Unicorns (2014), Love and Guatemala (2013), God, Hair, Love, and America (2009), as well as three books in the CoCo LaSwish series: Coco LaSwish: A Fish From a Different Rainbow (2013), Coco LaSwish: When Rainbows go Blue (2014), and Color me Coco: a Coco LaSwish Coloring Book (2013). You can find her byline on articles penned for the South Seattle Emerald, the Seattle Globalist, Crosscut, and more.