About Jaylan
I'm Jaylan Scott. I'm a Christian, and that shapes how I see most of what follows. I'm married to Jayla, and we share a home with two cats, Jet and Jackie.
By day I work in politics, at the spot where policy, messaging, polling and research meet. Strip away the titles and the job is simple to describe and hard to do: figure out what's true, what matters, and how to say it so people actually hear it. That same instinct led me to found PeachTracker, a civic-transparency project that makes local government in Macon-Bibb County easier to follow.
I studied at Georgia State University, and I'm back in the classroom at Wake Forest, working toward a Master of Public Administration. I'm also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Off the clock I'm a technology enthusiast, and I love electronic music. If there's a thread through all of it, it's that I'm a jack of all trades on purpose. I love learning how something works and then trying my own hand at it, whether that's a poll, a mix or an app.
In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
That verse, from my favorite book of the Bible, says it better than I can. Ecclesiastes doesn't promise that every effort pays off. It says you don't get to know in advance which one will, so you plant in the morning and keep planting in the evening. That's the closest thing I have to a philosophy, and it's why I've made peace with being a generalist: keep sowing, hold the results loosely, and enjoy the day you've been given.