Jacob Simon
is an award-winning climate communicator, video creator, and independent reporter providing your daily dose of inspiration; he’s on a mission to learn, inform, and encourage action on a global scale.
Who is Jacob?
Jacob Simon is an award winning climate educator, video creator, and former internationally ranked Team USA pairs figure skater. He’s best known for being the force behind JacobSimonSays, a fast-growing platform that reaches over a million people with good climate news and stories of real progress, as well as The Hopemakers, a community-focused newsletter, all rooted in replacing dread and fear with hope and action.
His platform has quickly become a leading source of good environmental news and education for over one million people. Jacob’s content has been viewed more than 100 million times and maintains an engagement rate higher than 95% of creators with similar reach, a testament to the deep connection he holds with his audience and the trust he’s built through consistency, creativity, and care.
From collaborations with Climate Power, Imagine5, Clean Creatives, the NRDC, UN, EPA, Gen-Z for Change, and many more, to recognition as one of 2024’s Climate Creators to Watch by Pique Action and Harvard C-CHANGE, Jacob is at the forefront of a new generation of climate leadership, one that’s powered by heart and storytelling. He’s also a creative fund recipient from Wave and the Shorty Awards.

111+ million views
15+ million likes
1 million+ followers
100,000+ comments
20,000+ actions driven
9.2% (Instagram) & 21.1% (TikTok) lifetime engagement rates
Standout content
An early video that started Jacob’s journey of spreading positivity and stories of progress to the world.
One of Jacob’s most popular pieces to date about coral reefs restoration, biomaterials, bipartisan climate policy from the band AJR, and a famous tree bouncing back.
Jacob’s take on using positivity & optimism to activate people to stand up against the Willow Project, driving tens of thousands of petition signers.
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Fun facts
⛸️ In his previous life (age 7-22) he was an internationally ranked pairs figure skater, competing for Team USA and culminating in a 9th place finish at the 2016 Jr. World Championships.
🎖️ In High School, he and his family created a charity called Courage For Kids, Medals For Hope where they got figure skater to donate medals they’d won from competitions along with photos and a description to patients in Chicago children’s hospitals.
🦊 His favorite piece of content (so far) is an unplanned piece about the most successful animal recovery ever under the Endangered Species Act. On a camping trip to Santa Cruz Island (part of the Channels Islands National Park), he came across these little foxes everywhere he turned, and couldn’t help but investigate further.
🏆 During the COVID-19 lockdown, he was searching for inspiration at home and decided to break 42 world records in a row. He then built a website so others could create and break their own world records. It gained over 20,000 page views in a single month, with 1,000 registered record breakers and 207 broken world records. The website has since been shut down so he could focus on other ventures :)
✍️ Before creating content, he was a copywriter and then ghostwriter completing over 50 jobs and in addition to his own content, he’s also created for inspiring organizations working on solutions and forward progress like Pique Action, Clean Creatives, and Fifth Wall.
