Jacob Simon
is a climate communicator, 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 a climate educator & creator, former internationally ranked Team USA pairs figure skater, and the creator of Jacobsimonsays — a platform telling real stories of progress to replace dread and fear with hope and action.
He inspires his audience of well over half a million people across social media (@jacobsimonsays on TikTok and Instagram) and a newsletter (Climativity) to overcome eco-anxiety and get involved with tackling the climate crisis through optimism, community, and action. Living in Brooklyn, NY, he's spreading hope to 75+ million people taking 20,000+ individual actions, and accelerating a better future through impactful storytelling and collaborating with the UN, NRDC, EPA, DOT, Clean Creatives, and more.
83+ million views
11+ million likes
700,000+ followers
71,000+ comments
20,000+ actions driven
8.95% (Instagram) & 19.8% (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.
Partners include
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.