Jake Wasserman is an engagement journalist based in the New York metro area. A graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism's Engagement Journalism program, he focused his graduate reporting on voting rights, and worked on the Electionland tip desk at ProPublica to monitor voting issues in West Virginia and Kentucky on Election Day 2020. He also was the inaugural engagement reporting fellow at Mountain State Spotlight, a nonprofit investigative newsroom in West Virginia, and a consultant with the Black-led West Virginia media collective, Black By God.
Jake currently works as the engagement editor at the Forward, America's most prominent Jewish news publication. He focuses on audience development, SEO, and social media strategy.
