Jackson Okata is a multiple award-winning independent multimedia journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Jackson specialises in science, health, agriculture, environment, climate change, women and gender, human rights, political and governance, tech and innovation reporting.
He is a 2026 United Nations Foundation (UNF) Polio Press Fellow and a 2026 Global South Coalition Dignified Menstruation Global Fellow.
He is also a fellow of the Internews Health Journalism Network, Earth Journalism Network, Journalists for Human Rights, Africa Centre for Media Excellence (ACME), YALI Network, Merck Foundation, Agroecology School of Journalists and Communicators and Thomson Reuters Foundation.
He has bylines on CNN, Gavi, the vaccine alliance, The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Reuters, Dialogue Earth, AFP, The New Humanitarian, Mongabay, Openly, Minority Africa, The African Mirror, Inter Press Service (IPS), RT News, Vice Versa Global, More to Her Story, Mesha Science,Pan African Vision, The Star Newspaper, The Kenya Times, Unbias the News, IJNET, Business Today, World Economic Forum, Daily Nation, Rolling Out, The Independent (Uganda), Nashville Voice, Prime Progress, TOPIA Magazine, africa-executive.com, Sunday Tribune, Independent Online, among others.
