Jimmie Briggs

Executive Director Emeritus and Co-Founder, Man Up Campaign

Bio Current as of March 2, 2016

Jimmie Briggs is an award-winning journalist, lecturer and executive director emeritus of Man Up Campaign. A National Magazine Award finalist and recipient of honors from the Open Society Institute, National Association of Black Journalists and the Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism, Jimmie Briggs’ book on child soldiers and war-affected children Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War won him accolades in 2005, and took readers into the lives of war-affected children around the world. Man Up Campaign is a global initiative to activate youth to stop violence against women and girls. For his work with Man Up Campaign and the issue of violence against women, Briggs was selected as the winner of the 2010 GQ Magazine “Better Men Better World” Search, as well as one of Women’s eNews’ 21 Leaders for the 21st Century. He is an honorary commissioner of New York Mayor Bill De Blasio’s Gender Equity Commission, and a member of the Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity, (PACH) at New York University.