Jackson Collins
Associate Executive Director & Director of Counseling, Prep for Prep

Jackson Collins is the Associate Executive Director of Prep for Prep, a New York-based leadership development and gifted education program that helps high achieving minority students in New York City public, charter and parochial schools. Jackson was a member of Prep for Prep’s Contingent XII in 1985 and served as Prep's Director of Counseling. Prior to his work at Prep, he was the Upper School Dean of Students and Associate Head of the Upper School at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, where he was also a member of the Upper School Admission Committee and chair of the Upper School History Department. Before Shipley, Jackson worked at The Episcopal Academy where he served as Upper School Form Dean, history teacher, and basketball coach. Jackson began his professional independent school career at his alma mater, Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, where he was the Coordinator of Interscholastic Athletics. Jackson graduated from Amherst College and earned a Masters in Education Leadership from the Klingenstein Center at Teachers College Columbia University and an Ed.D. in Education Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania. Jackson serves on the Board of Managers for the Oakwood Friends School and on the Board of Directors of LEADERSHIP Philadelphia. He also founded and operates Nine Nickels, a nonprofit organization inspired by his grandmother to promote socioeconomic progress through education and opportunity.