Advocacy.
Politics.
Policy.
Film.

I’m Jacob Smith, and I’m an activist and a filmmaker. I’ve been an advocate on climate, energy, habitat conservation, and other environmental issues for a couple of decades. I’m the executive director of a local government coalition - Colorado Communities for Climate Action - pushing for strong statewide climate policy. I consult for nonprofits, philanthropic foundations, and private sector businesses through Cedar Creek Strategies and Bright+3 and serve as an advisor to the Colorado Center on Sustainable Urbanism. Most recently I was Vice President of Campaigns at Alliance for Sustainable Colorado and before that I was Senator Bernie Sanders’ policy adviser on climate, energy, and environment. I served as the 46th mayor of Golden, Colorado, cutting ribbons, kissing babies and adjourning meetings with a swift swing of the gavel (as well as collaborating with my City Council colleagues to do good work on sustainability, government transparency, bike and pedestrian improvements, economic vitality, healthy neighborhoods, and protecting Golden from an ill-conceived superhighway proposal). I am a former member of the board of the Denver Regional Council of Governments and the executive committee of the Denver Metro Mayors Caucus, and I was a member of Transportation Committee of Governor John Hickenlooper’s Transition Team. I’m also the co-author of The Nimble Nonprofit: An Unconventional Guide to Sustaining and Growing Your Nonprofit, a lover of running on dirt, and an occasional blogger. And in the filmmaking part of my life, my most recent project (Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Making of a Political Revolution) is now on Amazon Prime, and the newest project (Dancing on the Elephant) goes into production in 2023.