Jonah Simon is a linguist, writer, copy guy, storyteller, schmoozer. He is currently based in New York, NY.
Now, I’m not a doctor. Just for fun, let’s say you have a cold. Who might you ask for advice?
My first call would be to my mom. She’s got inherited wisdom, Advil, chicken soup, and a kind of intuition that really does make you feel better.
But, sometimes, you need a doctor: someone who has studied the science, been under the hood, and can tell what’s really going on. Someone to explain that the Advil and the chicken soup are helpful, but they aren’t a cure. They treat the symptom, not the cause.
Too much writing out there treats its words as window dressing for an underlying meaning. As a classically trained linguist (and award-winning poet), I create work that speaks to a deep comprehension of the anatomy of meaning, the physics of form, and the engineering of language.
If you’d like to read some of my work, click here.
If you’d like to have coffee, shoot me a message !
work experience
Grapevine.AI
October 2023 –– Present
I also write as a freelance marketing ghostwriter for Grapevine.AI, an up-and-coming e-comm firm specializing in native advertising and social media. Within the quick-moving world of digital DTC advertising, I write features, reviews, and listicle articles for Grapevine’s suite of brands, including WeightWatchers, Huel, FACTOR Meals, The Farmer’s Dog, Harney & Sons Tea, and plenty more. I produce potent content, carefully optimized for tone, soft-sell, and SEO. My articles regularly receive 100k+ sessions, and my work constitutes an integral part of high-value campaigns (daily ad spend to the tune of $50k+). Not bad for a ghost with a keyboard.
CRAFT Media | Digital
February 2024 –– September 2024
As an Account Executive at CRAFT, I serviced high-value accounts and magnified my clients’ reach through the delivery of impactful messaging, collateral, and creative. At this boutique, full-service firm, I gained experience working both collaboratively and autonomously on a plethora of public relations, public affairs, brand strategy, advertising, and awareness initiatives. A particular highlight: I served as the lead boots-on-the-ground comms lead (and client liaison) for the ‘Manufacturing Express,’ a four-month, eighty-stop, 10,000-mile cross-country bus tour.
Lone Star Project
January 2023 –– May 2023
Texan by birth (and by allegiance), I joined up with the Lone Star Project, a Texas-focused political advocacy organization, to craft public-awareness comms in service of maintaining democratic integrity in the Lone Star State. As LSP’s resident Fellow, I regularly composed and translated essays, reports, video scripts, and memos in both English and Spanish. I also formulated & edited our daily 'state-of-the-state' newsletter with original fact-checking, analysis, and storytelling (35,000+ recipients).
National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
February 2021 –– September 2022
While I pursued my Linguistics degree at Georgetown, NIST tapped me to join the team of linguists working on the RUFES initiative, an arm of the U.S. government’s language-model development program. By analyzing and annotating syntactic entities for semantic role and real-world reference, I ‘trained’ NIST’s software to better recognize underlying meaning within ambiguous grammatical forms. Under tight deadlines, my team and I worked to ensure quality and accuracy across 10,000+ linguistic data entries.
CultHealth
January 2025 –– Present
These days, I work primarily as a Copywriter at CultHealth—a leading ad agency for pharma brands. There, I build narratives and author campaigns on behalf of innovative drugs and therapies. With my pen (and keyboard), I contribute to the creation of wide-ranging DTC and HCP creative collateral, including television, digital, and print. Also, I get to flex my linguistic muscles and coach VO artists in the production of TV spots. Some of those generics are hard to pronounce, after all. A good niche is like a good quiche: sold as a hot commodity.