Marketing Coordinator
Detroit Shock and Detroit Pistons
Tamela Jackson is a Detroit native. She attended Clintondale High School, where she decided to stop playing basketball, and instead exclusively focuse on her love of music and the Japanese language. While at Clintondale, Jackson was Drum Major of her the Marching Band for two consecutive years, becoming the first African American female at Clintondale to do so. In addition to accomplishments in Band, she was chosen to travel to Japen on two separate occasions: Once in 2000 as an exchange student, and again in 2002 with the Mt. Clemens Rotary Club as a volunteer interpreter. In 2003 she graduated, Magna Cum Laude, placing her amongst the Top-20 in her graduating class. In summer of 2003, she began her freshman year at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, becoming the first in her immediate family to attend the university.
At U-M, Jackson continued her love of languages and culture. She attained her Bachelors of Arts in both Japanese and American Culture and graduated with honors in 2007. Immediately, following her graduation from U-M, she began her career as a Sales and Marketing Coordinator with the Detroit Shock and the Detroit Pistons where her unique cultural background, and love for people, allows her to easily service and provide for her very diverse clientele base. As a result of her involvement with the 2008 WNBA Champions Detroit Shock, Jackson will be proud recipient of her very first professional sports championship ring. However, her ultimate goal is to become a curator and museum director.
Jackson dreams of obtaining her Ph.D. in American Studies and Museum studies before her 30th birthday. Jackson continues to shadow her museum mentor, and to immerse herself in all that museum culture has to offer. A self-described bibliophile and lover of old-school music, Jackson enjoys spending long afternoons reading books, visiting record stores and volunteering at museums and mentoring youth. She gives all thanks to God, her amazing parents, beautiful older sister Sanura, and her big brother and hero LeBron.
