Will Jawando is an attorney, an activist, a community leader, and a councilmember in Montgomery County Maryland, a diverse community of more than 1 million residents. Called “the progressive leader we need” by the late Congressman John Lewis, Jawanda has worked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Sherrod Brown, and Pres. Barack Obama. He is the author of My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022)

Interview Date: 7/8/2022  Tags: MP3, Will Jawando, Black men, Black boys, Kalfani, mentors, mentoring, fatherhood, mentorship, basketball, Barack Obama, NAACP, Catholic University, Alia Jawando, Coach Wayne Holmes, AmeriCorps program, Wayne Farrell, My Brother’s Keeper, Social change/politics, Personal Transformation, Men’s studies, Community