Ashawnta Jackson Interview (Freelance writer)
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Ashawnta Jackson is a freelance writer with bylines in JSTOR Daily, Atlas Obscura, Vinyl Me Please, and many more. She loves "musical subcultures and odd slices of music history."
How did you get to where you are today, professionally?
Mostly the way it happened is this: I had dropped out of college for the millionth time, bouncing around every major that seemed like something that a kid who liked to write would want to do— journalism, English, media studies, history, and my personal favorite, liberal studies‚ the best choice for those not willing to choose. College was always a thing I thought I wanted to do, and a thing that my parents wanted me to do, but lots of circumstances meant that I was going to have to do it on my own if I was ever going to do it.