Shareef Jackson had a featured essay in the Kobold Guide to Roleplaying publication. It was entitled “Embrace the Embarrassment:  Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love It When I Bomb.” From Shareef’s website (http://shareefjackson.com/about-me) we have the following summary of his career and interests: 

“Shareef has been obsessed with technology since childhood, disassembling remote controls and driving his parents crazy. After getting engineering degrees from Brown and Case Western, Shareef was a data analyst before starting his business in 2016.

As the founder of the math and physics tutoring service Math Looks Good LLC, Shareef’s culturally relevant communication style helps break down science, gaming, and math in a way that the average person can understand and appreciate.In addition to being a business owner, Shareef is a math professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers Newark and a professor of video games and learning at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. His views on science and technology have been featured in sources such as the New York Times, Smithsonian, The Guardian, NPR, Scientific American, and Maclean’s. He is also featured in the YouTube diversity in gaming series Gaming Looks Good and as a player / Dungeon Master of the Dungeons and Dragons show Rivals of Waterdeep. He was previously featured as a co-host on the video game podcast Spawn On Me and a player on the Roll20 show Star Trek Adventures.”