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Jimmie Briggs

Principal at Skoll Foundation; Journalist; Advocate for Racial and Gender Justice

Principal at Skoll Foundation; Journalist; Advocate for Racial and Gender Justice

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Jimmie Briggs Biography

When Jimmie Briggs joined the Foundation in 2020, he had more than two decades of experience as a journalist, author and activist. He was a co-founder and executive director emeritus of Man Up Campaign, a global initiative 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’. Briggs 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. For a decade, he has been an adjunct teacher of documentary journalism at the International Center of Photography

As a journalist, he has written for scores of publications following staff tenures at The Washington Post, The Village Voice, LIFE magazine and others. The recipient of honors for his work as a journalist and advocate, he’s been a National Magazine Award finalist, recipient of honors from the Open Society Institute, National Association of Black Journalists, the Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism, the Congressional Black Caucus, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and the Freedom Center in Cincinnati, among many others. His 2005 book Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War took readers into the lives of war-affected children around the world in half a dozen countries. His next book project is an oral history of Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014. He currently contributes to Vanity Fair magazine in addition to his role at the Skoll Foundation.

Briggs holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors, in Philosophy, from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as a Medal of Distinction from Barnard College. He lives in New York City.

Jimmie Briggs Videos

  • Cafe 3 - Jimmie Briggs & Jesse Lipscombe ROE Virtual Symposium
    Moderated by Keita Demming (PhD). Jimmie Briggs, journalist, activist, writer, and Jesse Lipscombe, an actor, entrepreneur, and activist, continued...
  • VIRTUAL EVENT | A Conversation with Jimmie Briggs
    IES Abroad is a not-for-profit organization that provides students and with high-quality academic study abroad programs and internship...
  • Failing Forward | Jimmie Briggs | TEDxTraverseCity
    Failure is an opportunity which social activists and entrepreneurs cannot be afraid to embrace. Through a personal tragedy, Jimmie Briggs will share...

Jimmie Briggs Books

  • Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War
    Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War

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