Jacob Soboroff

Jacob Hirsch Soboroff (born March 27, 1983) is a correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.  He debuted on the network in September 2015. 

He was previously the host of YouTube Nation and the co-host of TakePart Live on Pivot TV.  He was a founding host and producer of HuffPost Live, the live streaming network of The Huffington Post. 

Biography
Born in Los Angeles, California, Soboroff is the eldest child of Patti (née Schertzer) and the President of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, Steve Soboroff.  Soboroff attended Harvard-Westlake School, and later received a Bachelor of Arts in politics in 2005 and a Master of Arts in political theory and philosophy in 2006, both from New York University. 

He is married to Nicole Cari. 

Career
In college, Soboroff was an aide to New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.  

Soboroff was a contributor to MTV's 2012 presidential election coverage, for which he discussed America's young voters with GOP candidate Mitt Romney.  As the founding correspondent for AMC News, Soboroff interviewed actors and filmmakers.  Soboroff co-hosted NBC's proactive school makeover show School Pride.  He has contributed reporting to CNN, NPR's Weekend Edition and the PBS series WIRED Science.  Between January and December 2014 Soboroff hosted YouTube Nation, a pop-culture oriented news show on YouTube. 

As a correspondent for MSNBC, Soboroff specializes in border issues, making him one of the first reporters to call public attention to the Trump administration family separation policy, whereby children were separated from parents who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without proper documentation.  He was one of ten journalists invited by authorities to tour Casa Padre, a facility in Texas housing 1500 boys ages 10 to 17.  He described it as "shocking... an old Walmart which has essentially been turned into a child prison." 

Volunteer activity
Soboroff is a member of the board of Why Tuesday, a nonpartisan group working to increase American voter participation, and as a member of the City Year Los Angeles associates board.  Jacob Soboroff was a speaker at TEDActive 2011, TEDxPhoenix 2011-11-11, TEDxTalk, about "Why do we vote on Tuesday?  His talk about increasing American voter turnout was featured on the main stage at TED 2012 in Long Beach. 

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