About me
Jermeen is the Managing Director at Black Ambition, a nonprofit founded by Pharrell Williams to close the opportunity and wealth gaps through the provision of capital, coaching, care and community to dynamic underrepresented entrepreneurs.
Jermeen combines the best of strategic and analytical thinking from the business world with an unrelenting commitment to social impact and equity. Having worked in and alongside executive teams in community-based organizations, nonprofits, universities, and municipal government, Jermeen has diverse experience helping organizations better serve, and advance equity and opportunity, for minority and under-resourced communities.
Prior to joining Black Ambition, Jermeen founded Community Up, a social impact advisory firm that partners with government agencies, nonprofits, and celebrities to co-design solutions to pressing social challenges. Before founding Community Up, she was a director at Third Sector Capital Partners where she led strategic partnerships to drive resources to improve generational life outcomes for vulnerable populations. Jermeen also worked with LA County’s Department of Children and Family services where she led a variety of systems change initiatives, cross-sector strategic planning, and community-based human-centered design efforts to strengthen the continuum of prevention services and improve service delivery to children and families, leading projects from strategy through action and results.
Jermeen has a BA in philosophy and history from Emory University, an MA in mass communication & rhetorical strategies from Georgia State University, an MBA with a specialization in social impact from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership from Stanford University.
