Jacklyn is an educator, curator, and transdisciplinary artist. Working as an educational consultant, Jacklyn provides mentorship and advisement to high school, undergraduate, and graduate students, with a strong commitment to assisting refugee communities navigate the college application and financial aid processes. Holding an undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Education with an emphasis on arts integration, Jacklyn has taught in classrooms PreK-Grade 3 in both private schools and Chicago Public Schools. A graduate of the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY she studied exhibition design, photography, film, and book arts, earning her MFA in 2019. Since 2017 she has been a member of the organizing committee for WALL\THERAPY, a public art mural festival in Rochester, NY. In this context, she has collaborated on and organized workshops, artist talks, and conferences that invite the community to engage in conversations around themes of “art & activism” and “representation.” Jacklyn has held a prolonged interest in visual interventions that reclaim public space and amplify marginalized voices. She first began photographing street art and graffiti while living and teaching in Chicago, IL and co-founded Chicago Truborn where she curated exhibitions and community engagements from 2011 until 2014. Embracing a pluralistic approach to making, Jacklyn’s photography, film, and bookmaking work is rooted in a feminist and decolonial practice which seeks to incite critical visual discourse by raising questions around issues of identity, erasure, and appropriation. Creating immersive environments that provide the viewer with an acute embodied experience, her primarily installation-based work focuses on disrupting dominant Western and Eurocentric narratives, while identifying and acknowledging diverse sources of knowledge production; an endeavor that often involves the utilization and recontextualization of archives as a means of reclaiming identity and confronting the erasure of marginalized cultural narratives.