Basketball player, actress, comedian, model — and the thirteenth woman to wear the Globetrotters jersey.
Crissa Jackson is an American basketball player, actress, comedian and model, born in La Mesa, California on 26 October 1989 and raised in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
She played high school basketball at SciTech in Harrisburg and Mountain Ridge in Glendale, Arizona, then went to Savannah State University in 2008. She took the starting point-guard job as a freshman, led the team in three-pointers and assists, and was named honourable mention on the 2008–09 NCAA Division I All-Independent Team as a freshman. After a sophomore season averaging 9.3 points and 3.5 assists she was named Second-team All-Independent (2010), then transferred to Point Loma Nazarene, where she finished her college career (2010–2012).
In 2015 she signed with the Harlem Globetrotters, becoming the thirteenth woman ever to play for them.
Away from the floor she is a content creator with a combined following in the millions, and the founder of the I AM Movement.
Crissa is most known for being the crowd favourite — the ball-handling that put her in Rolling Stone, Forbes, SELF and on ESPN.
