About
Jermeen Sherman is the Managing Director atBlack Ambition, a nonprofit organization founded by Pharrell Williams working to createthe space and conditions for Black andLatinx/e entrepreneurs to excel, uninterrupted. Jermeen combines the best of strategic andanalytical 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 inmass communication & rhetorical strategies from Georgia State University, anMBA with a specialization in social impact from the UCLA Anderson School ofManagement, and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership fromStanford University.