Brooklyn MBK Districts and Superintendents
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NYC MBK Fellows in Action
NYC MBK Fellows 2018-2019 are high school students selected to represent their borough.
NYC MBK Fellows attend training, conferences and have mentorship opportunities. They demonstrate leadership skills and engage with their communities through their service projects they craft to better their community.
“The requirement was for society to wake up and find ways where we can come together and say to all of our young people, but particularly young men of color who, according to a whole lot of educators, were having a more difficult time in society for a whole range of historical reasons, we have to be able say to them that, ‘You matter, we care about you, we believe in you and we’re going to make sure you have the opportunity and the chances to move forward just like everybody else.’ And out of that, we decided to start My Brother’s Keeper.”
Barack Obama 2014