I am a ghostwriter and consultant based in Washington, DC, where I am a senior writer at Whiteboard Advisors.

Like many journalists, I began my career as a student reporter. Unlike many of my peers at the time, I was also a first-generation college student from a low-income family. Today, I help college presidents and faculty, K-12 leaders and teachers, former governors and White House officials, and policy experts and researchers turn their insights and expertise into clear, powerful prose.

For nearly a decade, I have worked at Whiteboard Advisors, where I have helped build the firm’s content creation practice. I have written hundreds of op-eds, speeches, newsletters, columns, white papers, and articles about early childhood, K-12, postsecondary learning, and workforce development, as well as philanthropy, technology, and business. My ghostwriting has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron’s, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, CNBC, Newsweek, Times Higher Education, and Time, among many other publications.

Before joining Whiteboard, I covered higher education for Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education, where my reporting focused on nontraditional students, education technology, college athletics, mental health, and student learning.

Under my own byline, I also write about movies, books, history, and culture. My work as a reporter has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Slate, The Nib, Teen Vogue, PBS NewsHour, and Indianapolis Monthly. My forthcoming book, out Fall 2027 from the University of Minnesota Press, examines U.S.–Japan relations through the lens of the Godzilla franchise. When I’m not writing, I’m usually taking photographs.

Email me at jaketnew@gmail.com.