Jarvis Nash
2015 City Year Bridge Builder Segal Fellow
Jarvis Nash is the 2015 winner of the Eli J. Segal Bridge Builder AmeriCorps Member of the Year award. He was selected out of nearly 3,000 City Year AmeriCorps Members. Jarvis served as a City Year AmeriCorps member in Washington, D.C., from 2013-2015. During his first year with City Year, Jarvis tutored and mentored second-grade students, created a school-wide positive behavior incentive system (PBIS), recruited over 400 D.C. public school students for an alternative spring break called Camp City Year, and was the recipient of the Comcast/NBC Universal Leadership award. Jarvis completed his second year with City Year as a Team Leader of 9 AmeriCorps members at a new City Year school site and his team was honored for their work with this site. As a Team Leader, he represented and advocated for his site as a member of City Year’s Dean’s Council and continued to serve as one of his sites’ recruitment leads for Camp City Year and Summer Leadership Academy.
Next, Jarvis worked at BES managing the recruitment and selection process for senior leaders in urban school systems to participate in an equity-focused fellowship. And currently, Jarvis is Talent Specialist for the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles.