Portrait of Amatullah Mervin, Community Partner for the YPAR Activism and Organizing as a Mental Health Intervention for BIPOC Youth: Building the Case for Practice Informed Evidence Research & Policy Team

Amatullah Mervin

Amatullah Mervin is a Boston-Cambridge, Massachusetts native and the Executive Director of The City School. She is experienced in youth and community organizing, social justice program development and organizational leadership. As a youth and community organizer herself for 10+ years, her work has placed her at the center of supporting youth with recognizing their power and using that power to fight for liberation in grassroots movements. She has successfully worked on numerous campaigns both in the city of Boston and around the nation including Youthway on the MBTA, ending Stop-and-Frisk in New York City and the work to dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Amatullah holds a B.A. in Sociology and is currently working on her Masters in Theology at Boston University. 

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