Rael Jackson
President at MOBE Symposium
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRael Jackson is a Brand Strategist and nonprofit president based in Chicago with over a decade of leadership advancing Black cultural initiatives and large-scale community programs. As President of Real Men Cook he has led a 31-year Father's Day movement, produced multi-city events with high-profile supporters like Barack and Michelle Obama, and his nonprofit has distributed over one million pounds of groceries on Chicago’s South Side since the pandemic. He co-founded and drives MOBE, creating influential convenings—recently pivoting to a virtual MOBE Mondays series that reached 100,000+ views—and has deep experience securing partnerships and sponsorships across corporate, media, and civic sectors. His background blends grassroots community organizing (including Census partnership campaigns that boosted regional participation) with event production and brand acceleration for executives and entrepreneurs. Beyond public-facing work, he brings technical attention to detail from hands-on localization and DevOps contributions to open-source projects, showing a rare mix of cultural stewardship and operational craftsmanship. Rael is actively seeking strategic partners to scale programming, sponsorships, and virtual conference initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
BS, Biology Pre-Medicine, BS, Biology Pre-Medicine at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Github Skills (14)
sh10
automation10
bash10
script10
localization10
shell10
automations10
scripting10
text-processing9
build-system9
file-processing9
git8
version-control8
python8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Arks-Layer/PSO2ENPatchCSV
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
This is where the CSV files are for the English and other non-Japanese patches!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Localization Specialist
DevOps Engineer & Localization SpecialistContributions:82 reviews, 7660 commits, 720 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rael primarily contributed to the project's build and testing infrastructure. They modified shell scripts related to code checking, file processing (UTF8, EOL, BOM), and release management, likely automating tasks related to patch creation and integration. Additionally, the user worked on text processing and spell checking with tools like aspell, filtercmd, and customized dictionaries, suggesting a focus on localization and ensuring text quality for the English patch. The user also worked on a font processing script.
csvjapanesecsv-filesenglishpatches
DabirSA/PSO2esTranslations
Mar 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 1061 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 2 months
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