Meet The Team
Dr. Etta D. Jackson
Board Chair/Founder/CEO
Etta D. Jackson, Ph.D. worked in the field of education for twenty-five years as teacher, guidance counselor and district administrator in both New York and Wisconsin. Ms. Jackson holds a B.A. in Biology and two M.S. degrees: one in Psychoanalytic Counseling and Development and the other in Administrative Leadership and Supervision. She received her a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University titled “The Role of Geospatial Information and Effective Partnerships in the Implementation of the International Agenda for Sustainable Development.”
Her passion for wanting to make a difference led her to the founding of The Institute for Conscious Global Change ICGC), a 501(c)(3) international non-for-profit NGO organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations. She now serves as the CEO of the Institute. This New York based organization was founded in 2007 with the objective of providing a comprehensive response to: ‘Fundamentally Changing the Way Humanity Lives in and Creates Its Environment’!
The focus of our work is to provide visual but tangible development solutions to support the unfinished mandate of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and now Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. With the aid of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Earth Observation and GeoDesign technologies, ICGC engages governments and citizens to develop integrated holistic and comprehensive development models for implementation in each country. ICGC believes this approach is essential for the eradication of extreme poverty, to create the ‘Future We Want’ and ensure no one is left behind. ICGC seeks to ‘Put Equality on the Map!
In 2016 a Proof of Concept done in St. Raphael, Haiti using secondary data and showing how the 2030 Agenda could be implemented was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Her dissertation was done in the informal settlement of Manyatta in the City of Kisumu in Western Kenya using primary data which resulted in the GeoDesign of the community.
Ms. Jackson is also the author of four books:
- Understanding Your Choice
- Unveiling the Secrets of the Feminine Principle
- The Role of Consciousness in Governance
- The Idea That Is the United States of America-Its Occult Foundation
She is the mother of one daughter and has a grandson.