Jacob Waxman is am advisory board member and senior trainer with the Leading Change Network. Jacob grew up on Maui, Hawaii, where he learned the value of community at his family’s house, which served both as an informal gathering place for people of all walks of life and a synagogue for the island’s small Jewish population. After growing up selling his brothers’ local political campaign t-shirts to classmates, he 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 joined the labor movement, organizing healthcare workers with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Jacob then received his Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2009, where he was a teaching fellow for 4 semesters with Professors Marshall Ganz and Ronald Heifetz, helping to teach courses on organizing and leadership. Since graduating he has dedicated himself to teaching and learning about leadership and organizing alongside leaders in the immigrant rights, climate change, labor, public education, and health/human rights movements all within the broader context of building the capacity for the practice of democracy. He has had the honor to train and coach leaders in campaigns that have won important victories for immigration reform in the United States, created new resiliency and “power with” among Pacifika immigrant youth in New Zealand, campaigns for increased pay and improved conditions for teachers, school employees, and students in California and dozens of others around the country and world. He has been known to get his “kicks” coaching youth soccer and stays active playing basketball, soccer, and riding the waves of the Pacific Ocean. His most precious time is spent with his son and wife, learning to be a father to the next generation.Specialties: Organizing