Reimagining Community, Education, and Policing with Jahmeer Reynolds

Jahmeer Reynolds is a community activist, the Executive Director of the Marin County Cooperation Team (“MCCT”), and the Community Engagement Manager for the Sausalito Marin City School District.

 

MCCT provides Marin County’s most vulnerable residents with comprehensive support services which address both critical and long-term needs.  

 

As MCCT’s ED and founder, Jahmeer is the architect of the Marin City Public Safety Initiative (“MCPSI”), the Frederick Leon Marcus Youth Academy ("FLMYA"), and the School to Life Project ("STL") (launching Fall 2021). 

 

The MCPSI is an initiative about re-imagining policing and public safety, as summarized in Jahmeer’s recent TedTalk: “Reimagining Policing for the Good of All”. 

 

Named for the first Black Sheriff Deputy in Marin County, the Frederick Leon Marcus Youth Academy (“FLMYA”) is designed to empower students (grades 9th-12th, mostly) with the tools that they need to maximize their strengths and potential, become community organizers, and influence their world at large. Through a variety of partnerships with community-based organizations, and local public service agencies, students are equipped with civic engagement, social justice, wellness, financial literacy, coding, trauma response, and public safety training.

 

The STL is designed to interrupt the special education to prison pipeline,through the provision of skilled, trained mentors to build relationships and provide academic, social and emotional support to students with special education needs.

For his work as MCCT's ED, Jahmeer received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for Outstanding Innovation from the U.S. Congress, a Certification of Recognition from both the California State Legislature and the Marin County Board of Supervisors, was selected as a Kron 4 Hero, and was given the “Excellence in Innovation” award from the Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership.