Paula Rice Jackson previously served as UNA-NYC's Recording Secretary after four years of leading the board as its President.

She is an author, editor, and broadcaster having a career as a journalist in the field of commercial architecture and interior design. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of INTERIORS Magazine, an imprint of BILLBOARD. Her editorial positions include work for Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, The NewYork Times, NBC and Metromedia. She holds a Masters Degree in Television Production from The New York Institute of Technology
and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.

Her non-profit work includes Edith Wharton Restoration, PBS, God's Love We Deliver, and The American Academy in Rome where she organized and executed the 4-yr. restoration of The Villa Aurelia with world-famous interior designer the late Mark Hampton. Her book MONOCHROME was published by The Monacelli Press in 2008.

Her childhood was spent in Tokyo when her father was posted there during the American Occupation of Japan. She has always considered those years to be among the privileges of her life preparing her for an ambassadorial approach to the design practice throughout the world.