Currently, she is a contributing journalist for NBCNews and The Atlantic. Her work has been published by Newsweek, New York Magazine, Time, The New York Times, Forbes & the Wall Street Journal. Jacoba attended Johns Hopkins University for both her BA in political science and MA from the School of Public Health. She is a graduate of New York University where she received her JD and LL.M. in taxation, concentrating on estate and trust law. Before covering art, she wrote for a wide range of parenting sites and magazines about how to buy life insurance, choose a guardian, and set up a trust for young families, and has practiced as a tax attorney.