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MasterMine | Episode 24 S2 | Eric Grimes AKA Brother Shomari | Community Activist/Educator/ Radio Host/Co-author of Why Our Children Hate Us
Eric Grimes AKA Brother Shomari is an activist, author, speaker, trainer and educator. His primary focus is developing consciousness-raising and transformative learning experiences for those committed to overcoming social marginalization, oppression, and systemic racism. He is currently a Director for the Boston-based firm, Root Cause, a consulting agency for nonprofits and other groups. His current focus is developing the City Strategy and Support Plans for the Campaign for Black Male Achievement, as well as expanding Root Cause’s work in the Black Male Achievement and Boys and Men of Color fields. Early in his professional career he was a youth development specialist and served as a College Access Coordinator for the Philadelphia Education Fund. Brother Shomari has worked as a program development consultant to many Black male and youth-serving organizations in Philadelphia and nationwide. He is the host of The Shomari Show, a weekly radio program airing on 900AM-WURD, Pennsylvania's only African American-owned talk radio station. Additionally, he serves as a part-time/guest lecturer in both the Graduate School of Education and the Graduate School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, and a workshop presenter for various institutes sponsored by the University's Netter Center for Community Partnerships. Brother Shomari formerly served as Chair of the Education and Policy Committees for the Philadelphia Commission on African-American Males, as steering committee member of the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey's Philly Roots Initiative and the Black Male Development Symposium, and as founding convener and sponsor of Black CAPs Philly: An Annual Celebration of Black Men's Post-Secondary Achievement. He is co-founder of AAKT (Action, Advocacy, Knowledge, & Training) Concepts for Social Justice and Community Development. AAKT's signature initiative, "Reaching Out For The Brothers: Concepts * Ideas * Strategies for the Exemplary Development of Black Men and Boys," engages in action, advocacy, knowledge development, and training to authentically and accurately articulate black male experiences in an effort to empower young black men and boys, as well as those who work with or on behalf of them. Brother Shomari is Co-Author of "Why our Children Hate Us, How Black Adults Betray Black Children." He will be following that amazing book with the next volume "For The Love of Black Children."
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Eric Grimes AKA Brother Shomari is an activist, author, speaker, trainer and educator. His primary focus is developing consciousness-raising and transformative learning experiences for those committed to overcoming social marginalization, oppression, and systemic racism. He is currently a Director for the Boston-based firm, Root Cause, a consulting agency for nonprofits and other groups. His current focus is developing the City Strategy and Support Plans for the Campaign for Black Male Achievement, as well as expanding Root Cause’s work in the Black Male Achievement and Boys and Men of Color fields. Early in his professional career he was a youth development specialist and served as a College Access Coordinator for the Philadelphia Education Fund. Brother Shomari has worked as a program development consultant to many Black male and youth-serving organizations in Philadelphia and nationwide. He is the host of The Shomari Show, a weekly radio program airing on 900AM-WURD, Pennsylvania's only African American-owned talk radio station. Additionally, he serves as a part-time/guest lecturer in both the Graduate School of Education and the Graduate School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, and a workshop presenter for various institutes sponsored by the University's Netter Center for Community Partnerships. Brother Shomari formerly served as Chair of the Education and Policy Committees for the Philadelphia Commission on African-American Males, as steering committee member of the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey's Philly Roots Initiative and the Black Male Development Symposium, and as founding convener and sponsor of Black CAPs Philly: An Annual Celebration of Black Men's Post-Secondary Achievement. He is co-founder of AAKT (Action, Advocacy, Knowledge, & Training) Concepts for Social Justice and Community Development. AAKT's signature initiative, "Reaching Out For The Brothers: Concepts * Ideas * Strategies for the Exemplary Development of Black Men and Boys," engages in action, advocacy, knowledge development, and training to authentically and accurately articulate black male experiences in an effort to empower young black men and boys, as well as those who work with or on behalf of them. Brother Shomari is Co-Author of "Why our Children Hate Us, How Black Adults Betray Black Children." He will be following that amazing book with the next volume "For The Love of Black Children."
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