Greg Jacobs is the co-director, with Jon Siskel, of the feature documentary The Road Up, which premiered in October 2020 at the Chicago International Film Festival, winning the Audience Award for Best Documentary. The co-founder of Chicago-based Siskel/Jacobs Productions, Greg most recently wrote and co-directed No Small Matter, the first feature documentary about the power and potential impact of early childhood education, which has helped move the needle on the issue nationally through more than 1400 screenings. Prior to that, Greg co-directed the acclaimed documentary Louder Than a Bomb, about the world’s largest youth poetry slam, which won seventeen festival awards, aired nationally on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and helped spawn more than fifteen LTAB-style events (and counting) around the country. Greg also served as Executive Producer of the groundbreaking History Channel documentary102 Minutes that Changed America, which won three Primetime Emmys, including Outstanding Nonfiction Special, as well as the National Geographic Channel special Witness: Katrina, which won the News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Historical Programming. Before launching SJP, Greg served as Chief Creative Officer at Towers Productions, where he oversaw the content of more than 200 documentaries on six different networks. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Greg is the author of Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and the Columbus Public Schools, and a 2016 New America Fellow.