Reynolds will receive seed funding and strategic support to provide comprehensive support services and transparent and robust civic engagement focused in Marin City, while also serving residents in need County-wide.
MARIN CITY, CA — September 17, 2021 — Announced earlier this month, Marin County Cooperation Team’s (MCCT) Executive Director, Jahmeer Reynolds has been selected as a 2021 Echoing Green Fellow. Since 1987, Echoing Green has supported the growth and leadership of emerging social entrepreneurs through its signature fellowship program that equips leaders with access to seed funding, strategic partnerships, and lifelong connections to a global network of leading philanthropists, investors, and entrepreneurs.
Jahmeer Reynolds is one of 18 Fellows joining a global community that counts former First Lady Michelle Obama, Last Mile Health co-founder Raj Panjabi, GirlTrek co-founders T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, and Creative Reaction Lab founder Antionette Carroll among its alumni.
“Echoing Green creates a synergy between visionaries that lightens the load associated with Freedom Fighting. Pulling ideas from international counterparts can enhance our service to be more reflective and responsive to effectively serve people of color with a more intentional cultural component.” said Jahmeer Reynolds.
Selected from a global pool of 1,500 applicants, Jahmeer Reynolds joins the inaugural class supported by Echoing Green’s Racial Equity Philanthropic Fund, launched in July 2020 to ensure social innovators are supported to sustain their impact on racial equity around the globe. From creating spaces of affirmation for Black youth in the U.S. to leveraging technology to address gaps in health care for displaced populations in the Middle East and Africa, members of the 2021 class are advancing racial justice worldwide.
“We know that transforming the world requires an intentional, explicit, and long-term focus on advancing racial equity and we are thrilled to support these next-generation innovators who are proximate to the issues and of their communities,” said Echoing Green President and 1992 Fellow Cheryl L. Dorsey, “It is a true privilege to be a part of their journeys as they collectively reimagine the world.”
The 2021 Echoing Green Fellows work in nine different countries and territories (Kenya, Libya, Malawi, Mexico, Myanmar, Oman, Puerto Rico, Somalia, and the United States) and U.S. cities including Nashville, Oakland, Flagstaff, and Washington, D.C. To learn more about the 2021 Fellows visit www.echoinggreen.org/2021-Fellows.
About Echoing Green:
For more than 30 years, Echoing Green has been on the front lines of solving the world’s biggest problems, raising up the transformational leaders willing to speak truth to power and challenge the status quo. The organization finds emerging leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible and sets them on a path to lifelong impact. Echoing Green’s community of nearly 1,000 social innovators includes past Fellows like First Lady Michelle Obama and the founders of organizations like Teach For America, Data for Black Lives, and One Acre Fund. Built and refined over three decades, Echoing Green discovers tomorrow’s leaders today and then funds, connects, and supports a new generation of social impact leaders.
About Marin County Cooperation Team:
Focused in Marin City, MCCT provides free comprehensive support services addressing both critical and long-term needs, and transparent and robust civic engagement to address the historical and systemic racism and large wealth disparities that have left parts of Marin County lacking in basic quality supports, equitable economic and educational opportunities, and safety.
MCCT seeks to empower Marin County’s historically underserved communities and most vulnerable residents to increase their health, wellness, educational outcomes, and economic opportunities, in order for them to experience an overall improved quality of life through service, relationships, connection, and equity.