Jake Waxman

Organizing & Campaigns Team

Title

Lead Trainer

Bio

Jacob Waxman is a Lead Trainer with the New Organizing Institute. Jacob grew up on Maui, Hawaii, where he learned the value of community at his family’s house, which served both as an informal community center for people of all walks of life and a synagogue for the island’s small Jewish population.  He first got involved with organizing as a student at Emory University, where he helped found the Emory Living Wage Coalition, through which students joined with the University’s service workers to organize for improved wages and working conditions.  Upon graduating, Jacob moved to Argentina where he learned the arts of political organizing and Spanish while working at a local NGO.  When he returned to the United States, he became involved with the labor movement, organizing healthcare workers with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  In 2009, Jacob received his Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, where he was a teaching fellow for courses on leadership and organizing.  He then made the logical leap from Harvard to NOI.

Organizing Superpower

Holding Steady

Campaign that changed your life

Organizing a union against the Hospital Coalition of America

Organizing/Political Hero

Bob Moses

How you stay sane outside work

Soccer, Basketball, Surfing, reading books, going to plays, laughing

Ninja or Pirate

Pirate

Plans during coming Zombie Apocalypse

Flee to a far away island, where the Zombies are afraid to tread b/c the perfect waves that roll into the island's shore are too majestic for them to pass through.