Kia Jackson

Kia Jackson is a sophomore transfer student from Eastfield College at the University of Texas at Dallas working on getting her Bachelor of Psychology and hopes to one day do research on combatting the online radicalization tactics of white terrorist groups. She is an advocate of data literacy, opposing the surveillance state, and registers voters in her hometown of Pleasant Grove. She is Dallas, TX, born and raised, and is especially proud to be on today's panel as she has seen the slow creep of gentrification across the city. She and her family were given only a 30-day notice to move out of her home of 13 years simply because the owner sold it to a new developer who wanted to flip it. When people speak about gentrification, they often refer to statistics; Kia is hoping to illuminate the human collateral behind what so many people refer to as progress.