Jimiri is a social justice nonprofit that promotes cross-racial friendships and leadership training for middle-school and high-school students. To help address the educational and economic disparities of segregation, we bring students together in small, racially diverse groups to build friendship, empathy, and understanding across racial lines.

Under Jimiri’s core program, middle-school students gather every Sunday afternoon for 10 weeks during each of their 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade years. Students are assigned to racially diverse groups, engaging in social justice curricula and common-interest activities led by high-school and college facilitators who previously completed the middle-school program.

In this way, from middle school through college, our young Jimiri leaders build lifelong, cross-racial friendships that will serve as the foundation for the next generation of social justice leadership.

Tuition is free for all families, and free bus transportation is provided for all who attend.

We’re currently updating our Social Justice Curriculum. Please see our working draft here.