Jake is a social entrepreneur and strategist who directs the Engagement division of the Sunlight Foundation – leading Sunlight’s communications, campaigns, and online strategy to get citizens engaged in creating a more transparent, accountable government.

Prior to joining Sunlight, Jake was the strategic communications director for the Energy Action Coalition – which brought over 12,000 people to Capitol Hill to lobby for clean energy reform at Power Shift ‘09, and mobilized nearly half a million ‘climate voters’ in 10 weeks in the 2008 elections.

In his otherwise diverse career Jake has served on the global management team of Idealist.org; directed Education Without Borders, the biennial event which brings a thousand young leaders from over a hundred countries to the UAE; and was the Executive Director of Break Away, through which more than 40,000 students spend “alternative spring breaks” becoming active citizens each year.

Outside the office, Jake is a former All-American triathlete, a published photographer and writer, and in addition to his role with Sunlight, serves on the board of directors for Hostelling International, on the international board of advisers of United Planet, and as an advisor to the University of Texas Project on Conflict Resolution.”

Through it all, Jake hopes to one day return to his first job as minor league baseball mascot Maury the Mule.