Jamil Jivani

Jamil Jivani (born October 24, 1987) is a Canadian social entrepreneur and community organizer. He is the founder of the Policing Literacy Initiative,[1] co-founder of Teachers Beyond the Classroom,[2] and a 2014-15 articling student at Torys LLP.[3]

Early life and education

Jivani was born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in the Greater Toronto Area. After attending Newman Creek Sr. Public School, Jivani attended Humber College and York University.[4] In 2013 he earned his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.[5][6] Before attending law school, Jivani worked as a dishwasher and line cook in local Toronto area restaurants.[7]

While a student at Yale, Jivani was Program Director of the Yale Chapter of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project[8] and President of the Yale Black Law Students Association.[9][10] He was also part of the Innovations in Policing Clinic, in which he authored a case study of police-community relations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[11] He contributed to the 2012 anthology, Jamaica in the Canadian Experience: A Multiculturalizing Presence,[12] and has written about youth and equality issues for Huffington Post.[13] At Yale, he was a classmate of J. D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy.[14]

Career

In 2013 Jivani founded the Policing Literacy Initiative (PLI), a youth-driven public education and advocacy group focused on community safety issues.[15] Jivani stated to CBC Metro Morning that the purpose of PLI is to spotlight progressive voices among police and community groups and work with them to find common solutions.[16] Jivani wrote an editorial for the National Post in February 2014 about his experience with Toronto Police and the Office of the Independent Police Review Director and the use of mediated conversations for citizen complaints.[17] In March 2014 Jivani advocated for Toronto Police Services Board policy changes to police-community contacts and "carding."[18][19][20] In April 2014 Jivani co-produced with Dan Epstein a documentary about police-community relations titled "Crisis of Distrust: Police and Community in Toronto."[21][22]

Jivani was a 2013-14 Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance DiverseCity Fellow.[23][24] As a Fellow he co-founded Teachers Beyond the Classroom, which seeks to "help thousands of unemployed teachers transfer their skills to non-school employment opportunities across the Greater Toronto Area."[25] He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Children's Aid Society of Toronto.[26] On February 13, 2014, Jivani was named Yale Alumni Magazine's Newsmaker of the Week.[27]

External video
After Words interview with Jivani on Why Young Men, July 6, 2019, C-SPAN

In 2019, Jivani published Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It.[28]

On December 11, 2019, the Government of Ontario appointed Jivani as the province's first Advocate for Community Opportunities. In this role, and as a Special Advisor to the Premier, Mr. Jivani will open lines of communications between communities and the government to empower community members and enable them to increase their participation in government decision making.[29]

References
  1. Rankin, Jim. Also the author of Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity and gave away couple of books to Hemanth Sundaresan, Josh Young at Fletcher's Creek Senior Public School."A civil approach to changing police", Toronto Star, Toronto, 9 February 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  2. Civic Action. "ALERT city-building project rises above the rest at ELNshowcase" Archived 2014-07-02 at Archive.today, Toronto, 2 April 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  3. Torys LLP. "Student Program Toronto: Recent Hires". Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  4. Chappel, Sara. "G.A.S. program opens doors for Humber students", Humber College, Toronto, 18 January 2013. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  5. Keung, Nicholas. "Yale University law grad Jamil Jivani has a message for other struggling kids", Toronto Star, Toronto, 14 July 2013. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  6. Share News. "GTA students excelling academically in the U.S." Archived 2013-08-07 at the Wayback Machine, Share News, Toronto, 19 June 2013. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  7. Getachew, Samuel. "A Journey From Dishwashing To Yale Law", Huffington Post, 9 October 2012. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  8. Yale Law School. "Yale Law School Hosts Area High School Students at Third Annual Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition" Archived 2013-01-08 at the Wayback Machine, New Haven, CT, 30 March 2012. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  9. Yale Law School. "Justice Clarence Thomas ’74 Visits the Law School" Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, New Haven, CT, 14 December 2011. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  10. Rodriguez-Florido, Liz. "Panel outlines changes in hip-hop", Yale Daily News, New Haven, CT, 29 February 2012. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  11. Yale Law School. "Innovations in Policing Clinic" Archived 2015-04-03 at the Wayback Machine, New Haven, CT. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  12. Davis, Andre & James, Carl. "Jamaica in the Canadian Experience: A Multiculturalizing Presence", Fernwood Publishing Company, 1 January 2012. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  13. Huffington Post. "Entries by Jamil Jivani", Huffington Post. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  14. "32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares - The Portal". Spotify. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  15. Policing Literacy Initiative. "PLI Home Page" Archived 2017-06-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  16. CBC Metro Morning. "Policing Minorities", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 22 May 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  17. Jivani, Jamil. "Not happy with the police? Try talking to them" Archived 2014-07-02 at Archive.today, National Post, 6 February 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  18. The Canadian Press. "Toronto police shouldn’t stop carding, lawyer says", The Globe and Mail, 13 March 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  19. Cole, Desmond. "One Step Closer to Reform of Police Carding", Torontoist, 14 March 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  20. Cole, Desmond. "Police Under Fire for Incomplete Policy on Carding Practice", Torontoist, 9 April 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  21. Spurr, Ben. "A matter of trust, NOW Magazine. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  22. Cole, Desmond. "Torontonians Speak Out About Police Carding", Torontoist, 23 May 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  23. Eastwood, Joel. "DiverseCity Fellows focus on youth unemployment", Toronto Star, Toronto, 3 October 2013. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  24. Share News. "DiverseCity Fellows focus on youth unemployment" Archived 2014-03-27 at the Wayback Machine, Share News, Toronto, 15 November 2013. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  25. Criscione, Peter. "Emerging leaders make their pitch to improve GTA", Mississauga News, Toronto, 7 April 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  26. Children's Aid Society of Toronto. "Board of Directors". Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  27. Bass, Carole. "Jamil Jivani ’13JD: Yale blue, police blue", Yale Alumni Magazine, 13 February 2014. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.
  28. WHY YOUNG MEN by Jamil Jivani | Kirkus Reviews.
  29. "Giving Ontario Communities a Greater Voice in Government Decision Making". news.ontario.ca. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
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