We are excited to announce that one
of our John Jay alumni, Jeffrey Jimenez, has been one of the first winner's in
the national City Year Twitter contest! Jeffrey Jimenez was born and raised in
Manhattan eventually deciding to pursue his bachelor's degree at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice. Here he discovered his passion for the sociology
of crime. He took particular interest in the general lack of quality education
in low income areas. As an undergraduate he addressed these issues by
volunteering with several offices on campus. He graduated with honors with a
bachelor's degree in criminal justice and minors in philosophy and economics.
Post-graduation Jeffrey decided to
get involved in City Year in order to give back to his community and further
involve himself in working on educational access issues. In this role he has
been able to make positive changes in children's lives. He has been tweeting
about this experience as part of the #makebetterhappen campaign. The
#makebetterhappen campaign is an integrated marketing campaign rooted in
Twitter that features actual City Year corps members in and around the schools
they serve. Click here
to check out a video PSA from the campaign. Because of Jeffrey's impact and the
stories he's shared over Twitter, he was selected out of 2500 corps members to
fly to City Year Los Angeles to engage in best practice sharing with corps
members at that site.
We are very excited to see our
alumni succeeding and continuing their work towards social justice. We wish
Jeffrey all the best as he continues on his academic and professional journey.
For those of you interested in working with City Year you can gain more
information by visiting their website at www.cityyear.org.
