New KCC Trustee Wants Local Kids to Stay
Rejeana Jackson joins KCC’s Board of Education as trustee
Rejena Jackson (KCC)
KLAMATH FALLS — Rejeana Jackson, newly appointed KCC Board of Education member for Zone 5, wants to see her children grow up in Klamath Falls and not have to move away for their professional careers.
A Klamath Falls native and a 1998 Klamath Union graduate, the former Rejeana Robey, said many of her high school colleagues left to find work elsewhere.
“A lot of them didn’t come back,” she said.
She would like to see more economic development in the basin to keep young people here and, she said, KCC plays a big role in preparing students for the jobs that are available.
Jackson replaces Trustee Linda Dill who resigned in December. She will fill out the remainder of her 2025-26 term before having to run for the post again.
Jackson graduated from Pepperdine University in southern California obtaining a degree in organizational communications. She and her husband, Peter, met in college. After a brief stint as a broadcast journalist with NBC affiliate in San Luis, Obispo, she joined JC Penney’s Target stores as a manager. She later joined the Kohler firm, working in the company’s high-end furniture division, Baker Furniture, running two of its showrooms.
“I got a chance to work with amazing interior designers,” she said.
But the tug of wanting to start a family took precedence and the couple made some career choices, eventually moving back to Klamath Falls to care for her ailing father and help her mother.
A former Klamath County Commissioner candidate, Jackson is running for the Klamath County Clerk position this year. She worked in human resources at New Horizon Christian Fellowship church and is no stranger to volunteer work. She is on the Klamath Falls Gospel Mission board, helping fundraise for an emergency management warehouse project called Koinonia House and is fundraising for a new building for Crosspoint Christian school. She’s also a member of Soroptimist International.
After touring the KCC campus recently, Jackson believes the school is on the right path.
“When I left Klamath, KCC was just starting. I think if there would have been a KCC in 1998, the way it is today, I would have stayed,” she said, noting that the school is a bridge for students, matching education with what employers are seeking.
“I am amazed at what the college has to offer. And so to have an opportunity for kids to pick a trade and then basically walk off that graduation stage and go a job is really inspiring. I’d like to help be a part of that.”
Jackson and her husband, Peter, have three children, Rex,11, Ramona 9, and Peter, 7.
For more information about KCC and its programs, visit www.klamathcc.edu.
