Jake Voorhees

Entrepreneur, Filmmaker, Marketer

Jake is a core tribe organizer for TEDxWilmington and TEDxYouth@UrsulineAcdemy, which is a sister event. He has video interviewed over 94 speakers immediately as the exit the red carpet, which has been a life changing experience. Jake produces promotional videos for events, and helps curate and mentor speakers. He loves working with speakers after their TEDx talk, using the red carpet credibility to grow their initiatives. By trade, Jake is a civil engineer who has left the industry and runs a video production and digital ads business. He is passionate about content marketing for organizations that are striving to change the world. His personal "why" is his non-profit project, "The 1% Engineer Society" with mantra "Empowering Underrepresented Engineers". He does this by interviewing and storytelling the success of women and engineers of color. His 1% Engineer Show on YouTube has over 100 episodes and sees nearly 100k views / month. Between 2012 and 2018, TEDxWilmington has had 29 different TEDx events featuring 397 speakers from around the world who gave 375 TEDx talks. Our videos on the TEDx YouTube channel have received over 7.2 million views.

Content Marketing Gender & Racial Equality Storytelling

I’ve video interviewed 94 TEDx speakers immediately as they exit the red circle to capture their experience, their journey to TEDx, and to catalog advice for future speakers.

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