Jimmie Briggs

Journalist & Co Founder, Man Up Campaign

Working at the Skoll Foundation for the past five and a half years, Jimmie Briggs developed and oversaw the intersectional Justice & Equity portfolio. An award-winning journalist, he has taught at the New School for Social Research, the Tisch School of Arts at New York University and the International Center of Photography. A co-founder and executive director emeritus of Man Up Campaign which activates youth to stop violence against women and girls, Jimmie is a contributing writer to Vanity Fair, New York Amsterdam News, AARP Magazine, and The Guardian. His first book, Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War explored the lives of child soldiers in half a dozen global conflicts, while he just completed an oral history of Ferguson, Missouri following Michael Brown’s death there in 2014.Currently, he is actively researching and writing a book on manhood and masculinity in the 21st century.