Jason Warwin

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1995

Jason Warwin

The Brotherhood Sister-Sol

http://www.brotherhood-sistersol.org

New York, New York, United States

Education & Youth Leadership

The Bold Idea:

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol has been created to address the dire need for supportive programs for Black and Latino youth who are surrounded by the poverty, drugs, violence, racism and mis-education which plague America's cities. The Brotherhood/Sister Sol provides these youth with the knowledge, resources, opportunities, and love necessary in order to understand and overcome these negative pressures, as well as the skills to combat them. The Brotherhood/Sister Sol promotes positive development into adulthood by providing youth with an opportunity to explore their ideas, identity and future among peers, with the support and guidance of their immediate elders.

The organization offers a safe space for over 130 youth to speak their minds, acquire knowledge and skills, define their own beliefs, and receive support in fulfilling their full potential. The Brotherhood/Sister Sol provides a unique array of services and activities: academic, mentor, leadership development, international study, internships, community service and organizing, job training, and the organization also retains outside legal council for our members. Acknowledging the belief that adolescence is fraught with a myriad of emotional and physical changes and challenges, the organization works with youth for an extended period of time.

Ultimately, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol seeks to develop a cadre of youth who are informed and critically aware; who have positive, mutually supportive relationships with their peers and elders; and who have reflected on their beliefs and goals, including responsibility for self and their community.

Biography:

Jason Warwin began his career in community organizing and social service in 1989 at the age of 16 as an organizer within the anti-Apartheid movement. He attended Brown University and maintained a high level of activism within Black student groups and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.. Also while at Brown, Jason served as the Youth Services Assistant at the John Hope Settlement House in Providence where he started Da' Brotherhood. Jason earned two Bachelor's degrees from Brown University: one in Organizational Behavior and Management, and an honors degree in Africana Studies.

Jason is the Co-Founder & Co-Director of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, a grassroots youth development organization based in Harlem, New York. Since 1994 he has worked to grow the organization from a small college work-study project for young men, to a independent multi-service youth organization serving nearly 200 young men and women ages 6 through 25. He has received numerous awards including an Echoing Green Fellowship, Union Square Award, Oprah's Angel Network Use Your Life Award, NY1 New Yorkers of The Week and a variety of others.

Jason is on the Board of Directors of The New York Foundation, The Fund for Social Change and Educators for Social Responsibility. He has traveled extensively in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean for personal study and as a group leader.