Jacklyn “Jax” Gil

Boston, RI | jax@jaxgil.com

Summary

Jax is an anti-oppressive facilitator and consultant focused on transformative and strategic communications, facilitation, organizational development, grassroots-led grant-making, solidarity economy building, and cultural strategy. She works in English and Spanish and enjoys organizing with Latino and immigrant communities.

Skills

Strategic Communications, Facilitation and Facilitative Leadership, Systems Thinking and Design, Grantmaking, Liberatory and Relational Organizational Development, Training Development, Program Development and Management, Community Building, Fundraising (both grassroots and traditional approaches), Theater of the Oppressed Facilitation, Social Media Management, Media Relations, Digital Analytics, Website Management, Creative Production

Education

Emerson College, Digital Marketing and Web Analytics, Fall 2019

Wellesley College, Latinx and Chicanx Theater and Performance, Spring 2018

Brandeis University, Bachelor’s in Peace and Justice Studies with a minor in Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation, 2010-2014

Cohort-based experiential learning:

Open Masters’ Alt*Div, Firebird cohort 2017-2018

Liberation School, Founding cohort, 2017-2018

Betty’s Daughters Arts Collaborative, Womanist Performance Intensive, Summer 2016

Work Experience

GreenRoots, Communications Manager, 2024-2026

Jax Gil Consulting, 2019-present

Arts Connect International, Co-director of Strategic Development, 2023-2024

Latino Policy Institute, Strategic Programs Manager, 2022-2023

The City of Providence, Mayor’s Office, 2021-2022

Infinite Growth, Launch Team Editor and Producer, Spring 2020

HowlRound Theatre Commons, Communications Manager, Arts + Culture Commons Working Group, 2019-2020

Resist, Co-director, 2015-2019

New Economy Coalition, Commonbound Conference Arts+Culture Team, 2014

Trainings and Coaching

Executive Coaching Cohort Member, Social Innovation Forum, 2026

200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, JP Centre Yoga, 2024

Facilitating Forum Theater Online, Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, 2021

Trauma and the Internal Family Systems Model: Releasing Personal and Legacy Burdens, Dick Schwartz, PhD, 2020

MG’s Course Correction: Just Transition In The Age Of COVID-19, Movement Generation, 2020

Power of Online Spaces Facilitation Training, People’s Hub, 2020

Virtual Facilitation Skill Share, David Jenkins, Joanna Gattuso, and Sol Gonzalez, 2020

People of Color Meditation Retreat, Insight Meditation Society, Summer 2019

Evolutionary Leadership Workshop Graduate Program, Gibran Rivera, Summer 2018

Emergent Facilitation, adrienne maree brown, 2018

Evolutionary Leadership Workshop, Gibran Rivera, Summer 2017

Community Investing for Social Change, Massachusetts Solidarity Economy Initiative, 2017

Cultural Organizing for Community Change, Arts and Democracy, 2016

Talks and Presentations

“Can the Revolution be Funded?” - Allied Media Conference, 2016

Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Minor Commencement Speaker, Brandeis University, 2014

Opening Talk for Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein at the Orpheum Theater - Do the Math Tour, 350.org, 2012

Publications

The Promise of the Commons, HowlRound Theatre Commons, 2019

A Practice in Emergence: Creating Resist’s New Theory of Change, Strategic Priorities, and Culture of Care, Resist, 2018

Volunteer Work

Arts and Culture Team, Boston Ujima Project, 2017-2019

Safety Team, Allied Media Conference, 2016

Team Member, Intelligent Mischief, 2014-2016

Climate Justice Organizer, Students for a Just and Stable Future, 2013-2014

Founding Member, Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign at Brandeis University, 2013-2014

Community Organizing for Public Utilities Intern, George Wiley Center, Summer 2012

Languages

English, Spanish

Certifications and Awards

Google Analytics Academy - Fall 2019

Personal Projects

Body as Power, 2019-2020

Liberatory Theatre Project, 2017-2019

Travel

Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada