Jacob Gordon, MPA

I'm an entrepreneur, strategist, manager, marketer, fundraiser, advisor, and nonprofit board member. I started my career as an environmental journalist before going into technology, serving as co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Artiphon, a pioneering music technology company. In 2020 I began supporting my Brooklyn community first as a volunteer and then as Director of Development and Communications for The B.R.O. Experience Foundation, a young non-profit specializing in innovative mental wellness services for economically marginalized young men of color.

I also have experience in green real estate development, working with my family’s firm that owns and operates The Distillery in Boston, one of the city’s main artist live/work locations and one of the first multi-family Passive House developments in the country.

I occasionally do journalistic and academic writing, most recently publishing a chapter in a book from the SCORAI group on Routledge Press on the links between mindfulness and environmentally sustainable behaviors.

I recently completed a Master’s in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. I have a BA in sociology from Bard College and I studied business in the Bard MBA in Sustainability program (Princeton Review’s #1 MBA for green business and nonprofit management).

I was in the inaugural cohort of the Inner Development Goals Ambassador Program and attend the Summer Research Institute hosted by the Mind & Life Institute (co-founded by the Dalai Lama).

In a previous incarnation I played country music in Nashville. I love making photographs (mostly portraiture, but feel free to ask me about this project), Buddhist practice (mostly Zen), and books on all manner of things.

A professional profile is here, my resume and academic coursework is here, you can reach me via LinkedIn and email.

I live in Boston with my partner Inès, and I try to make it to NYC and Los Angeles as often as I can.