My name is Daryn Jackson.
I help mission-driven
organizations find and tell their true story.
For nearly 15 years, I've worked at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and social change.
From city government to national political campaigns, inside nonprofits and across the arts, I lead communications in high-stakes environments where trust is hard-won and clarity isn't optional.
Clarity is a practice.
Across different rooms, with different stakes, and different vocabularies the work is the same:
Find what's true. Create the conditions for it to surface. Make sure it doesn't leave when you do.
My story begins in rehearsal rooms.
As a theater maker, I hold entire productions in mind at once. I structure spaces that encourage individual creativity while steering each artist toward a shared vision. I know how one actor's authenticity ripples through an ensemble, and how a single bold action can shift the meaning of everything that follows.
The actor’s skills — listening deeply, responding truthfully, improvising under pressure, shaping story and structure — are the same skills I recruit to mine an organization’s mission and work to shape their narrative strategy.
About the Founder
Strategic Communications
As Communications Director and Public Information Officer for Metro Nashville's Office of Arts and Culture, I led communications for a multi-million dollar public arts portfolio, grew constituent engagement by 329%, and rebuilt the agency's earned media presence from the ground up.
I navigated multiple high-visibility crises without losing the public trust we'd worked to build, working directly alongside the Mayor's office, elected officials, philanthropic leaders, and community organizations. I know exactly what it costs when an organization can't communicate clearly under pressure, and what becomes possible when it can.
Community Organizing
As Organizing Director for the Democratic Party of Georgia during the 2024 presidential election, I built field infrastructure across 14 rural counties, managed a team of staffers, engaged 1,800+ volunteers, and helped hold Georgia's margin to 2.2% in the battleground map.
Translating national strategy into local trust, county by county, relationship by relationship, is some of the most demanding communications work that exists. I know how to do it.
Training and Facilitation
Earlier in my career, as a trainer and speaker with Rachel's Challenge, I facilitated ten distinct trauma-informed programs to more than 45,000 students and educators annually across the United States. I piloted professional development curriculum, coached a national team of facilitators, and arrived at something foundational:
The most powerful communication doesn't happen to people. It happens with them. You create the conditions. They find the truth inside it.
Organizational Development
Before any of that, I built something from the ground up. Unity Yoga Room started as an idea and became a thriving wellness community — 150+ members, a team of 15 instructors, and a fully accredited 200-hour teacher training program. I earned trauma-informed facilitation certifications in movement, meditation, and mindfulness, and developed corporate wellness curriculum for organizational clients.
Running that studio demanded every skill I now bring to consulting: building culture from scratch, developing people, designing programs that work for diverse learners, and producing experiences that make something real happen in a room. It also made viscerally clear that the work of building community — whether in a yoga studio, a campaign field office, or a rehearsal room — is always, at its root, the same work.
Work With Me
Jackson House Creative is the house I've built for this work: a home for consulting, facilitation, and the transformative arts united by a single conviction: narrative clarity is a critical practice for organizations and communities alike.
If any of this sounds like the conversation your organization needs to have, I'd love to talk. The best engagements are with organizations that have some execution capacity on staff and leaders who are ready to think, not just produce.