Garrett Jacobs
Director Of Strategic Partnerships And Business Development
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolGarrett Jacobs is a mission-driven leader with 12 years of experience designing networks, operations, and partnerships that advance social and racial justice through the built environment. Based in Oakland, he currently leads strategic partnerships and research-driven project evaluation at Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, where he has scaled budgets, built systems, and aligned philanthropy to impact-focused programs. Trained as an architect (B.Arch, M.Arch) and certified in construction management, Garrett blends design thinking with rigorous financial and operational management to move community-centered projects from concept to implementation. He has founded and grown a global volunteer network (Open Architecture Collaborative), recruited governance teams, and translated grassroots needs into fundable programs and measurable outcomes. Raised in a family of food and hospitality professionals and educated in post‑Katrina New Orleans, he brings a lived understanding of community gathering, resilience, and inequity to his collaborative, restorative-justice approach. Beyond operations, Garrett publishes research at the intersection of justice transformation and architecture, investigating how environments shape collective healing.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Construction Management, Certificate, Construction Management at California State University - East BayM. Arch, Architecture, M. Arch, Architecture at Tulane University
Github Skills (8)
hugo10
jekyll10
architecture4
mongodb2
apply1
javascript1
nodejs1
react1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gjacobs86/openarchcollab.org
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:78 commits, 8 PRs, 81 pushes in 2 years 3 months
collaborativearchitecture
codeforamerica/alumni-ideas
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
reacteventsalumnijavascriptexpress
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