Justin Jacobs

Justin Jacobs

Associate Director for Storytelling

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Justin Jacobs is AJWS’s Associate Director for Storytelling, responsible for bringing the inspiring stories of AJWS’s grantee partners and human rights activists around the world to our global community of donors and supporters. Prior to joining the AJWS team in 2018, Justin spent much of his career as a journalist, chronicling arts, culture and news for a variety of magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and across the Middle East and Asia, as well as a digital marketing strategist and content writer for tech start-ups and small businesses. He is a 2009 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in English writing and religious studies.

When he is not learning from and writing about human rights activists, Justin is usually backpacking, hiking, dancing, cooking, swimming, playing saxophone or bicycling around Philadelphia.

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