Jake Brewer

Jake is a social entrepreneur and strategist who directs the Engagement division of the Sunlight Foundation – leading Sunlight’s communications, campaigns, and online strategy to get citizens engaged in creating a more transparent, accountable government.

Prior to joining Sunlight, Jake was the strategic communications director for the Energy Action Coalition – which brought over 12,000 people to Capitol Hill to lobby for clean energy reform at Power Shift ‘09, and mobilized nearly half a million ‘climate voters’ in 10 weeks in the 2008 elections.

In his otherwise diverse career Jake has served on the global management team of Idealist.org; directed Education Without Borders, the biennial event which brings a thousand young leaders from over a hundred countries to the UAE; and was the Executive Director of Break Away, through which more than 40,000 students spend “alternative spring breaks” becoming active citizens each year.