Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author, known for her prescient writings on social trends, particularly technology’s impact on humanity’s wellbeing and for her social justice reporting. Her latest book Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure has been lauded as"deeply compelling" (Kate Bowler); "incisive and timely-triumphant" (Dan Pink); and "both surprising and practical" (Gretchen Rubin).  Nominated for a National Book Award, Uncertain was chosen as the 2024 “Nonfiction Book of the Year” by the Independent Publishers of New England. Uncertain also was named a Top 10 book of the year by Greater Good magazine. The book has been featured in media worldwide. Her recent NY Times opinion piece on uncertainty and well-being drew a quarter-million views. Her acclaimed book Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention sparked a global conversation on the steep costs of our tech-centric, attention-deficient modern lives. With a foreword by Bill McKibben, the book reveals the scientific discoveries that can help rekindle our powers of focus in a world of overload and fragmentation.  The book is “now more essential than ever,” says Pulitzer finalist Nicholas Carr. 

Maggie’s essays, commentary, and books have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New Philosopher, on National Public Radio, and in media worldwide. She wrote the foreword to Living with Robots: Emerging Issues on the Psychological and Social Implications of Robotics (Academic Press, 2019) and has contributed essays to numerous other anthologies, including State of the American Mind: Sixteen Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism (Templeton, 2015) and The Digital Divide: Arguments For and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking (Penguin, 2011). Her book, What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age, was the first to explore the fate of home in the digital age, a time when private life is permeable and portable. The recipient of numerous grants, awards, and fellowships, including a 2016 Bard Graduate Center Visiting Fellowship, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, and the Women’s Press Club of New York. For an NPR segment on the lack of labor protections offered to child newspaper carriers, she was a finalist for a Hillman Prize, one of journalism’s highest honors for social justice reporting. She has served as an affiliate of the Institute of the Future in Palo Alto; a Journalism Fellow in Child and Family Policy at the University of Maryland; and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Museum for Art in Wood in Philadelphia. Maggie is a sought-after speaker, appearing at Harvard Business School, the New York Public Library, the annual invitation-only Forbes CMO summit, the Simmons and other top women’s leadership conferences, and other corporations, libraries, hospitals, schools, religious organizations, and bookstores. A graduate of Yale University and the London School of Economics with highest honors, Jackson lives with her family in New York and Rhode Island.