Benjamin Mack-Jackson

Benjamin Mack-Jackson is a journalist, author, and visual storyteller. For more than a decade, he has worked to document and share stories of war and conflict.

As the founder and executive director of the nonprofit organization WWII Veterans History Project, Benjamin dedicates his time to preserving the memories of WWII veterans and eyewitnesses across the globe. To date, he has interviewed nearly 400 veterans in five countries. He has directed the feature-length documentary Normandy Revisited, authored World War II History for Teens, and oversees the curation and presentation of original wartime artifacts through traveling museum exhibitions.

As a freelance journalist, Benjamin has completed several extensive reporting trips to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, documenting the stories of soldiers and civilians while working as an accredited journalist with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.