Carolyn Jackson is the Assistant Director of the City of Walnut Creek’s Arts + Recreation Department, serving as General Manager of the Lesher Center and Managing Director of Center REP. In these roles she oversees programming including the Headliners presentation series, Center Repertory Company, Bedford Gallery, venue rentals, and educational programs. She has previously served as the City’s Arts + Recreation Community Relations Manager, and prior to that as Communications Director for non-profit theater Dance Place and Assistant Director for modern dance company DancEthos, both in Washington, DC. While at Dance Place, her responsibilities included serving on the curatorial team for the annual performance season, as well as creating and enacting comprehensive programmatic and institutional marketing plans for programs in the theater, school and community.

Jackson holds an M.A. in Arts Administration from American University and previously supported the City’s Arts + Recreation Department in interim management roles overseeing the Center for Community Arts and Recreation Classes and Social Services divisions.