Maria Rosario Jackson

An urban planner, policymaker, scholar, and educator, Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson is former Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 2021–January 2025. For more than thirty years, she has focused on the role of art in building communities where all people can thrive. While Chair of the NEA, she advanced an arts integration agenda and led Healing, Bridging, Thriving: A Summit on Arts and Culture in our Communities. The summit was a collaboration between the NEA and the White House Domestic Policy Council, which showcased the power of the arts in health, community development, environment, education, and more. Dr. Jackson is a tenured professor at Arizona State University.