Jermaine Myrie

Jermaine Myrie will join MENTOR at the end of April 2023 as the organization’s next CEO. Jermaine is an innovative and mission-driven leader with 20+ years of leadership experience across the nonprofit, for-profit and education sectors.

Prior to joining MENTOR, Jermaine served as the chief external affairs officer for uAspire, a national nonprofit focused on college access and affordability, where he set the vision and strategy for organization-wide activities tied to revenue generation and brand building. Jermaine led a multi-faceted external affairs team in achieving consistent success and strategic growth in uAspire’s brand awareness, fundraising, business development, and partnership engagement.

A native New Yorker, Jermaine holds a bachelor’s degree in English, with a minor in Sociology from Morehouse College, as well as a Master of Arts in Teaching, with a focus on secondary education, from Simmons University. Jermaine started his career as an English teacher at the Glover Cleveland Middle School in Boston, MA where he began to live out his passion for and commitment to shaping the experiences of young people through his role as an educator and mentor. Jermaine later went on to hold several business development positions in the for-profit sector at companies such as Novartis, Xerox, Johnson Controls and Aetna Student Health.

Jermaine is also an active community builder and volunteer. He has volunteered for over 15 years at the Yawkey Boys and Girls Club of Boston, working with and mentoring over 120 young people each year as part of the Manny Wilson Educational and Basketball Program, and currently coaches youth baseball and basketball in his local community. He is a board member of the American Cancer Society-Eastern New England and currently serves as the Interim Board Chair for The Literacy Lab, a national nonprofit that provides students in communities experiencing racial and/or economic inequities-with evidence-based, culturally responsive literacy instruction as preparation for academic, professional, and personal success. Jermaine also spent ten years on the Boston Preparatory Charter School board with additional service on numerous other boards.