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Excited to be in conversation with my colleagues, friends Lori Rose Benson, Dr Olajide Williams and the estimable Chuck D! 👍🏾
Excited to be in conversation with my colleagues, friends Lori Rose Benson, Dr Olajide Williams and the estimable Chuck D! 👍🏾
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Imagine ✨ : having hundreds of hours of conversations 👩💻 with thought leaders, partners, experts, and friends about a unique set of questions that…
Imagine ✨ : having hundreds of hours of conversations 👩💻 with thought leaders, partners, experts, and friends about a unique set of questions that…
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We are beyond excited to announce new additions to our Pillars Artist Fellowship advisory committee! 🎥 This trailblazing advisory committee…
We are beyond excited to announce new additions to our Pillars Artist Fellowship advisory committee! 🎥 This trailblazing advisory committee…
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Skoll Foundation
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Member, Leadership Council for Public Television's Women and Girls Lead Campaign
ITVS
- 2 years
Human Rights
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Board Member
Peace is Loud
- 5 years
Human Rights
"Abigail Disney founded Peace is Loud in 2009 after producing her first film, the award-winning documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. The film, directed by renowned filmmaker Gini Reticker, tells the story of the Liberian women who came together to end their country’s brutal civil war and bring peace to their shattered nation.
The film’s first official screening, held a month before its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, was in the mountain town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and…"Abigail Disney founded Peace is Loud in 2009 after producing her first film, the award-winning documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. The film, directed by renowned filmmaker Gini Reticker, tells the story of the Liberian women who came together to end their country’s brutal civil war and bring peace to their shattered nation.
The film’s first official screening, held a month before its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, was in the mountain town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That first audience was a group of 50 women who had survived the Bosnian genocide a decade earlier. Despite the differences between their two countries, these women saw themselves in the Liberian peacemakers onscreen. Inspired by the film, they met with their mayor and demanded that women be included in the city’s reconciliation and rebuilding efforts—an unprecedented and audacious act. Since then, the film has been shown at hundreds of screenings across the U.S. and around the world, galvanizing audiences to re-envision their own capacity as peacebuilders.
The generative forces behind the making of the film and impact it has had on viewers continue to motivate us today: Frustration—that the story of the brave and visionary women in Liberia who joined forces to end a bloody civil war was at risk of being lost in the official records of history. Hope—that by sharing their story, we would honor the strength and perseverance of these women—ordinary mothers, grandmothers, aunts and daughters, both Christian and Muslim. Conviction—that their experiences, and others like them, can trigger a groundswell of peacebuilding worldwide."
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Advisory Board Member-Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
- 4 years 1 month
Civil Rights and Social Action
The Project for the Advancement of our Common Humanity (PACH) is an emerging think tank, funded by the NoVo foundation and based at New York University, that is designed to engage researchers, policymakers, practitioners, activists, educators, artists, and journalists in a series of conversations focused on what we have learned from science and practice regarding what lies at the root of our crisis of connection and what we can do to create a more just and humane world. Presently, PACH entails…
The Project for the Advancement of our Common Humanity (PACH) is an emerging think tank, funded by the NoVo foundation and based at New York University, that is designed to engage researchers, policymakers, practitioners, activists, educators, artists, and journalists in a series of conversations focused on what we have learned from science and practice regarding what lies at the root of our crisis of connection and what we can do to create a more just and humane world. Presently, PACH entails a public lecture series and monthly conversations with 50 senior level professionals.
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Volunteer
New York Cares
- 2 years
Education
More than 59,000 people volunteer with New York Cares year after year. In total, 400,000 disadvantaged New Yorkers are assisted through New York Cares' program.
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Advisor
Be More America
- Present 10 years
Civil Rights and Social Action
Be More seeks to shift paradigm on how human beings perceive and relate to one another, combining academic research with storytelling and online-community engagement. Be More's design is a result of the indispensable support of the Vera Institute of Justice, and comments from over 1,000 scholars, researchers, community advocates, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs from across the nation.
Be More's mission is to cure racism - a disease of the mind - within our lifetime. To create…Be More seeks to shift paradigm on how human beings perceive and relate to one another, combining academic research with storytelling and online-community engagement. Be More's design is a result of the indispensable support of the Vera Institute of Justice, and comments from over 1,000 scholars, researchers, community advocates, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs from across the nation.
Be More's mission is to cure racism - a disease of the mind - within our lifetime. To create research based tools - such as data driven documents, animated films, films and docudramas, interactive visualizations, workshops, virtual campaigns, and trainings - and engage change agents to learn, transform, and heal the effects of "racialization" of human beings.
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Member
New York City Commission on Gender Equity
- Present 9 years
Civil Rights and Social Action
Concerned that far too many New Yorkers continue to face discrimination because of their gender, Mayor Bill de Blasio established the Commission on Gender Equity (CGE) in June 2015 to address issues of inequity and discrimination facing girls, women, and transgender and gender non-conforming persons regardless of ability, age, ethnicity/race, faith, gender expression, immigrant status, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status.
In September 2016, the City Council and the de Blasio…Concerned that far too many New Yorkers continue to face discrimination because of their gender, Mayor Bill de Blasio established the Commission on Gender Equity (CGE) in June 2015 to address issues of inequity and discrimination facing girls, women, and transgender and gender non-conforming persons regardless of ability, age, ethnicity/race, faith, gender expression, immigrant status, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status.
In September 2016, the City Council and the de Blasio Administration determined that it was essential to permanently establish CGE, ensuring a long-term focus on eliminating gender discrimination in New York City.
Since its founding, Jimmie Briggs has remained the only male on the commission focusing on reproductive health and sexuality education and rights, as well as engaging men and boys in gender equity for all New Yorkers.
Publications
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New York’s New Abolitionists, (profilee)
A photo driven work coordinated by the New York-based non-profit Sanctuary for Families, and photographed by Lynn Savarese highlights the activists, survivors and officials who are leading the fight against trafficking in New York and around the world.
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Hearts on Fire: Stories of Today’s Visionaries Igniting Idealism into Action, (profilee)
Random House
INSPIRING STORIES OF FOURTEEN VISIONARIES WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD—AND A BOLD CALL TO ACTION TO MOTIVATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS
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Child Soldiers (contributor)
powerHouse
Activist and editor Kahn (Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan) has compiled a powerful illustrated volume documenting the lives of child soldiers, who currently number up to 300,000 worldwide-in places including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Columbia, across Africa and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their stories are told through six brief essays and more than 60 unforgettable photographs (from almost three dozen photographers), reproduced in large, high-quality images…
Activist and editor Kahn (Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan) has compiled a powerful illustrated volume documenting the lives of child soldiers, who currently number up to 300,000 worldwide-in places including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Columbia, across Africa and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their stories are told through six brief essays and more than 60 unforgettable photographs (from almost three dozen photographers), reproduced in large, high-quality images that record clearly the faces of children standing guard, marching or resting, laden with gear and weapons. Their expressions are haunting, whether fearful, triumphant, proud or dazed. In one of six essays, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, makes it clear what's at stake: "terrorizing and abducting young children, putting them through brutal rites of initiation, and forcing them to kill community members, sometimes even family members, or be executed." Jo Becker of Human Rights Watch explains how others "join out of desperation"; after poverty or war drives them from their homes, many children "perceive armed groups as their best chance for survival-or simply a guarantee of at least one meal per day."
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Crimes of War (contributor)
W.W. Norton
The Crimes of War Education Project is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers and scholars dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of war and their application to situations of armed conflict. Our goal is to promote understanding of international humanitarian law among journalists, policymakers, and the general public, in the belief that a wider knowledge of the legal framework governing armed conflict will lead to greater pressure to prevent breaches of the law, and to punish those…
The Crimes of War Education Project is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers and scholars dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of war and their application to situations of armed conflict. Our goal is to promote understanding of international humanitarian law among journalists, policymakers, and the general public, in the belief that a wider knowledge of the legal framework governing armed conflict will lead to greater pressure to prevent breaches of the law, and to punish those who commit them.
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Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War
Basic Books
See publicationFor just under a decade, this book was researched and reported from the frontlines of conflicts around the world. The horrific stories of these children, dramatically told in their own voices, reveal the devastating consequences of this global tragedy. Ida, a member of Sri Lanka’s Female Tamil Tigers, fought with one of the longest-surviving and successful guerilla movements in the world. She is sixteen. Francois, a fourteen-year-old Rwandan child of mixed ethnicity, was forced by Hutu…
For just under a decade, this book was researched and reported from the frontlines of conflicts around the world. The horrific stories of these children, dramatically told in their own voices, reveal the devastating consequences of this global tragedy. Ida, a member of Sri Lanka’s Female Tamil Tigers, fought with one of the longest-surviving and successful guerilla movements in the world. She is sixteen. Francois, a fourteen-year-old Rwandan child of mixed ethnicity, was forced by Hutu militiamen to hack to death his sister’s Tutsi children.More than 250,000 children have fought in three dozen conflicts around the world, but growing exploitation of children in war is staggering and little known. From the “little bees” of Colombia to the “baby brigades” of Sri Lanka, the subject of child soldiers is changing the face of terrorism. Cogent, passionate, impeccably researched, and compellingly told, Innocents Lost" was described as "the fullest, most personal and powerful examination yet of the lives of child soldiers," when it was published.
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My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience (contributor)
Sterling
In My Soul Looks Back in Wonder, bestselling author and Emmy-winning correspondent Juan Williams presents the dramatic and uplifting stories of men and women who have been profoundly transformed by their experiences on the front lines of freedom.
Meet Jesse Epps, who witnesses the cold-blooded murder of a black man who refused to step aside for the white "town boss"—and then channels his rage into political action. Or Endesha Holland, a former prostitute whose chance run-in with civil…In My Soul Looks Back in Wonder, bestselling author and Emmy-winning correspondent Juan Williams presents the dramatic and uplifting stories of men and women who have been profoundly transformed by their experiences on the front lines of freedom.
Meet Jesse Epps, who witnesses the cold-blooded murder of a black man who refused to step aside for the white "town boss"—and then channels his rage into political action. Or Endesha Holland, a former prostitute whose chance run-in with civil rights icon Robert Moses in Mississippi sets her on a harrowing journey that leads to a Ph.D. Or Diane Wilson, a Texas fisherwoman who, inspired by the struggles of Vietnamese shrimpers, launches a crusade to save the Gulf Coast from big-time polluters.
Published on the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, My Soul Looks Back in Wonder is an intimate portrait of America at its best. As Juan Williams writes, "In these pages you will meet extraordinary individuals who tapped into their personal power to become agents of change. They are those rare souls who, through sacrifice and risk, dared take direct action to create a better America. They are American history."
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The Best of Emerge Magazine (contributor)
One World/Ballantine
Emerge magazine earned widespread respect among African American readers for its biting social commentary and willingness to explore controversial topics of the 1990s. Curry, editor-in-chief from 1993 until the last issue in June 2000, offers a collection of more than 100 articles from the award-winning magazine on a range of topics from affirmative action to the Million Man March to racism on the Internet. The contributors include Nelson George, Les Payne, Thulani Davis, Jill Nelson, and…
Emerge magazine earned widespread respect among African American readers for its biting social commentary and willingness to explore controversial topics of the 1990s. Curry, editor-in-chief from 1993 until the last issue in June 2000, offers a collection of more than 100 articles from the award-winning magazine on a range of topics from affirmative action to the Million Man March to racism on the Internet. The contributors include Nelson George, Les Payne, Thulani Davis, Jill Nelson, and Tananarive Due, as well as one-time staffers such as Jimmie Briggs. The collection includes an interview with Emmett Till's mother on the fortieth anniversary of her son's murder; a profile highlighting the disproportionately tough mandatory sentencing for drug convictions handed to black youth; coverage of the death of Malcolm X's widow in a fire set by her troubled grandson; and commentary on the contrast in media coverage of atrocities in Kosovo versus Rwanda. The collection also includes profiles of such prominent figures as Jesse Jackson and Clarence Thomas. Emerge readers who have missed the lively magazine and readers interested in race and social issues will enjoy this collection.
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Honors & Awards
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Encore.org Senior Writing Fellowship
Encore.org
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SAFE Magazine Global Hero
http://issuu.com/safemag/docs/safe_issue_2
Safe is the first magazine focused on stopping the global epidemic of violence against children. It is a celebration of the people, practices and things that are most effective in response and solutions. Safe is supported by Together for Girls—a public-private partnership working to end violence against children, particularly sexual violence against girls.
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Medal of Distinction
Barnard College
Barnard Medal of Distinction Citation presented by Prof. Janet Jakobsen at Commencement 2013.
http://barnard.edu/news/citation-jimmie-briggs
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Freedom Center Award
Freedom Center for Slavery and Human Trafficking
Annual award honoring social justice advocates
http://cincinnatiherald.our-hometown.com/news/2012-04-14/Events/Freedom_Center_event_to_honor_courageous_social_is.html
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Womens eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century Award
Womens eNews
"Women's eNews is an award-winning nonprofit news service covering issues of particular concern to women and providing women's perspectives on public policy. With writers and readers around the globe Women's eNews' audience stretches from New York City to New Delhi and all points between, reaching an estimated 1.5 million readers each year."
http://womensenews.org/story/21-leaders-the-21st-century/101228/womens-enews-announces-21-leaders-the-21st-century-2011#.VIAuQjHF-So -
"GQ Better Man, Better World" Search Award
GQ Magazine
Description of award and fund overseeing it: http://report.gq.com/
https://twitter.com/GQMagazine/status/28943224734
http://penelopesoasis.com/2011/leadership-for-change.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/11/gq-better-men-better-worl_n_678651.html
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Mental Health Journalism Fellowship
Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism
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1st Place Award for International Journalism
New York Association of Black Journalists
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New York Association of Black Journalists
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1st Place Award for International Journalism
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Dart Center for Trauma and Journalism Fellowship
The Dart Center-Columbia University
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Congressional Black Caucus Public Service Award
Congressional Black Caucus
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Northwestern University School of Journalism Medill Award
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Medill Award
Northwestern University School of Journalism
Languages
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French
Elementary proficiency
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German
Elementary proficiency
Organizations
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Congo Kids Initiative
board member
- PresentCongo Kids Initiative (CKI) supports children impacted by the decades-long war being fought in Eastern Congo. Working with local implementing partners, CKI provides financial and communications support for programs designed to allow children to enter adulthood with resources and tools. CKI was started by a group of international journalists and their Congolese colleagues to support children impacted by the continuous conflict in Eastern Congo. In the midst of brutal fighting in 2003, the CKI…
Congo Kids Initiative (CKI) supports children impacted by the decades-long war being fought in Eastern Congo. Working with local implementing partners, CKI provides financial and communications support for programs designed to allow children to enter adulthood with resources and tools. CKI was started by a group of international journalists and their Congolese colleagues to support children impacted by the continuous conflict in Eastern Congo. In the midst of brutal fighting in 2003, the CKI team met the nuns running St. Kizito Orphanage and immediately formed a support network that has helped hundreds of children survive through ongoing instability.Our work has been focused in Bunia, Orientale Province, the site of extreme violence over the last decades as multiple armed groups battled for control over precious minerals and trade routes. Despite this conflict, our partners at St. Kizito Orphanage and other Congolese child protection networks have been able to provide support for children who have lost their families in the war. Children who have lost their parents and communities to conflict need medical attention, nutrition, shelter, education, and love. CKI works with local partners who can provide these resources while navigating changing stability in the region.
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ITVS (Independent Television Service)/Women & Girls Lead Leadership Advisory Council
member
- PresentThe distinguished members of our Leadership Council are highly accomplished individuals who have displayed a personal, ongoing commitment to inspire citizen and leadership action to achieve gender equity around the world. Members of the Council help connect the dots of government, media, Hollywood, and NGOs to energize, expand, and amplify the movement to empower women and girls, their communities, and future generations.
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Brown Boi Project
board member
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Description of the organization from its website: "Launched in 2010, the Brown Boi Project works to build leadership, economic self sufficiency, and health of young masculine of center womyn, trans men, and queer/straight men of color--pipelining them into the social justice movement. We are a diverse and broad community, driven by a commitment to racial justice, gender justice, and transforming our privilege of masculinity into a tool for social change. We prioritize support that improves the lives of masculine of center womyn, queer, and trans people of people of color; work that transforms the lives of women and girls; and introduces new alliances and tools for challenging racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia across our communities." www.brownboiproject.org
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New York University/Steinhardt (Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity)
advisory board member
- PresentThe Project for the Advancement of our Common Humanity (PACH) is an emerging think tank, funded by the NoVo foundation and based at New York University, that is designed to engage researchers, policymakers, practitioners, activists, educators, artists, and journalists in a series of conversations focused on what we have learned from science and practice regarding what lies at the root of our crisis of connection and what we can do to create a more just and humane world. Presently, PACH entails…
The Project for the Advancement of our Common Humanity (PACH) is an emerging think tank, funded by the NoVo foundation and based at New York University, that is designed to engage researchers, policymakers, practitioners, activists, educators, artists, and journalists in a series of conversations focused on what we have learned from science and practice regarding what lies at the root of our crisis of connection and what we can do to create a more just and humane world. Presently, PACH entails a public lecture series and monthly conversations with 50 senior level professionals.(http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/pach/)
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Peace is Loud
board member
- PresentDescription of the organization: "Abigail Disney founded Peace is Loud in 2009 after producing her first film, the award-winning documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. The film, directed by renowned filmmaker Gini Reticker, tells the story of the Liberian women who came together to end their country’s brutal civil war and bring peace to their shattered nation. The film’s first official screening, held a month before its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, was in the mountain town of…
Description of the organization: "Abigail Disney founded Peace is Loud in 2009 after producing her first film, the award-winning documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. The film, directed by renowned filmmaker Gini Reticker, tells the story of the Liberian women who came together to end their country’s brutal civil war and bring peace to their shattered nation. The film’s first official screening, held a month before its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, was in the mountain town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That first audience was a group of 50 women who had survived the Bosnian genocide a decade earlier. Despite the differences between their two countries, these women saw themselves in the Liberian peacemakers onscreen. Inspired by the film, they met with their mayor and demanded that women be included in the city’s reconciliation and rebuilding efforts—an unprecedented and audacious act. Since then, the film has been shown at hundreds of screenings across the U.S. and around the world, galvanizing audiences to re-envision their own capacity as peacebuilders. The generative forces behind the making of the film and impact it has had on viewers continue to motivate us today: Frustration—that the story of the brave and visionary women in Liberia who joined forces to end a bloody civil war was at risk of being lost in the official records of history. Hope—that by sharing their story, we would honor the strength and perseverance of these women—ordinary mothers, grandmothers, aunts and daughters, both Christian and Muslim. Conviction—that their experiences, and others like them, can trigger a groundswell of peacebuilding worldwide." (http://www.peaceisloud.org/)
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