Lucas Jacob serves as LJCDS’s Director of Writing, Communication, and Media Literacy. This role involves working with all three divisions on initiatives related to communication, focusing especially on writing and on 21st-century literacies.
 
Mr. Jacob is the author of two full-length poetry collections (Sympathetic Beasts, 2023, and The Seed Vault, 2019) and two chapbooks of poems (Wishes Wished Just Hard Enough, 2019, and A Hole in the Light, 2015). He serves as co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Media Literacy Education. Mr. Jacob’s poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in more than 70 literary and trade journals. He earned his bachelor’s in English and African/African-American studies from Carleton College and his master’s in creative writing and literature from Temple University. For the past 25 years, he has worked as a teacher, coach, advisor, and administrator in independent schools in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Texas, and California. He had the privilege of being a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, Hungary, in 2004-05.
 
When he is not writing or working with young people, Mr. Jacob plays guitar (sometimes in amateur bands featuring rock and blues repertoires, and more often in his living room), walks or runs for miles on end, follows the Chicago Cubs, and experiments with new dishes in the kitchen. Mr. Jacob and his wife are enjoying getting to know their new home city of San Diego.