Jimmie Briggs is a documentary journalist, lecturer, and advocate for racial and gender equity. Currently a Partner/Fellow at New Profit, Jimmie was a co-founder and executive director emeritus of the Man Up Campaign, launched in 2010 during the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, to galvanize youth globally as activists responding to SGBV (sexual and gender-based violence) against women and girls.
An award-winning writer, his book “Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War,” investigated war-affected children around the world in half a dozen countries. He is a contributor to Vanity Fair and The New York Amsterdam News. An adjunct professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, his next book is a cultural history of masculinity and manhood in the 21st century.