Toya Jackson serves as a program officer with NTI’s Global Nuclear Policy Program (GNPP). In this role, she supports NTI’s efforts to reduce global nuclear risks and proliferation, focusing on regional and nuclear security issues in Asia and the Global South, as well as U.S. nuclear policy and arms control.
Previously, Jackson served as a program coordinator and Japan specialist in the Washington, DC, office of the East-West Center (EWC), a non-profit organization providing research and analysis of issues mutually impacting the United States and the Indo-Pacific region. Prior to EWC, Jackson served as a diplomatic assistant in the political department of the Embassy of Japan in the United States, where she was responsible for monitoring security and foreign policy developments in the Indo-Pacific and Middle East from 2018-2022.
Jackson is a recipient of the 2023 Boren Fellowship and studied Mandarin Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan from 2023-2024. She is completing her master’s degree in Public Administration and Public Policy (MPAP) at American University.
She speaks English, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese.