Jimmie Briggs - Co-leader, Testimony & Transformation

As a writer, activist and community organizer, Jimmie Briggs challenges us to look more closely at the connections between racial, social and gender injustice.

Jimmie Briggs is a documentary storyteller, writer and advocate for racial and gender equity. He co-leads, alongside R. Clifton Spargo, the Voices and Faces Project’s “Testimony and Transformation” writing program for citizens impacted by the criminal justice system. Jimmie is an adjunct professor in social change journalism at the International Center of Photography in New York and the founder and executive director emeritus of Man Up Campaign, a globally-focused organization to activate youth to stop violence against women and girls. This led to his selection as the winner of the 2010 GQ Magazine “Better Men Better World” search, and as one of the Women’s eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century. Jimmie has served as an adjunct professor of investigative journalism at the New School for Social Research, and was a George A. Miller Visiting Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. A frequent contributor to Vanity Fair and a Principal at Skoll Foundation, Jimmie centers his work on explorations of racial, social and gender injustices, challenging us to look more closely at the lines of connection between these forms of oppression.