Jacob Adams
Spring 2026 John Jay Fellow
Hometown: Honesdale, PA
College: Georgetown University
Major: History
Jacob Adams was born and raised in northeast Pennsylvania. After graduating public high school, he made his way south to Georgetown University where he studied Middle Eastern history. At Georgetown, he was involved in bringing a variety of speakers to campus including Charlie Kirk, Victorino Matus, Eric Trump, and Jonathan V. Last.
Jacob wrote his senior thesis on the Episcopalian Church’s perspective on Zionism during the first half of the 20th century, and he completed a religion minor through the Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He also holds a certificate in applied education policy from Pepperdine University.
As a college student, Jacob worked at a variety of conservative organizations in Washington. He was an Intercollegiate Studies Institute Intern at The Washington Free Beacon where he wrote about politics and covered the International Religious Freedom Summit. He also interned for the Ethics and Public Policy Center where he assisted Jennifer Bryson, PhD with research on the Catholic writer Ida Friederike Görres, and he was also an intern at The Heritage Foundation where he worked for several think tank fellows.
Following graduation, Jacob was a junior fellow at First Things where he edited the letters section of the print magazine and helped produce the organization’s podcasts. He most recently has been a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal where he covered the Senate, Pentagon, and House of Representatives.
Jacob has an appreciation for the many different expressions of Christianity including the mainline and Baptist roots of his youth, and the Catholic faith he obtained in college.