Jacob Tobia Biography

Jacob Tobia is a writer producer and author of the forthcoming memoir Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story with Putnam Books at Penguin Random House (March 2019). From interviewing former US Presidents to working with queer and trans youth Jacob helps others embrace the full complexity of gender and own their truth even when that truth is messy as hell. Currently living in Los Angeles Jacob was recently named to the Biden Foundation’s Advisory Council for Advancing LGBTQ Equality and the Clinton Global Initiative Honor Roll.
A member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 and the OUT 100 Jacob made their debut on the national stage when they were interviewed by Laverne Cox as part of MTV’s The T Word. In 2015 Jacob was profiled by MTV in the one hour GLAAD Award-nominated episode of True Life: I’m Genderqueer and in 2016 Jacob created coproduced and hosted Queer 2.0 a first-of-its-kind LGBTQ series for NBC News. In 2017 they served as the Social Media Producer on Season 4 of Amazon’s Emmy Award-winning series Transparent and collaborated with Instagram and GLAAD to produce #KindComments a custom campaign for Trans Day of Visibility that was viewed over 14 million times. In 2018 Jacob produced and starred in a critically acclaimed revival reading of the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play I Am My Own Wife and was announced as the new face of Fluide Beauty a line of trans and queer-inclusive makeup.

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