<a href=”https://clayboykin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/artworks-000232609652-yrplra-t500x500.jpg”><img class=”size-medium wp-image-60641 alignleft” src=”https://clayboykin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/artworks-000232609652-yrplra-t500x500-300×300.jpg” alt=”” width=”300″ height=”300″ /></a>Jerry Tello has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Latina and Lowrider magazines and has received many major awards including: the Maria Shriver’s Annual Advocate for Change award; the White House Champions of Change award; the Presidential Crime Victims Service award, presented by President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno; two California Governor’s Awards and the Ambassador of Peace Award presented by Rotary international.
Jerry is considered an international expert in the areas of trauma, healing, men and boys of color, fatherhood, family strengthening, racial justice, racial healing, community peace and mobilization and culturally based violence prevention and intervention issues.
He is co-founder of the <a href=”https://www.nationalcompadresnetwork.org”>National Compadres Network</a>. He has authored numerous articles, videos and curricula addressing the issues of Fatherhood, Male “Rites of Passage,” relationship and gang violence prevention, racial justice, teen fatherhood, pregnancy prevention, family strengthening, fatherhood literacy and community peace.
Jerry is the author of “<a href=”http://www.jerrytello.com/store/p6/Amor_de_Padre%3B_A_Father%27s_Love.html”>A Fathers Love</a>”, a series of children’s books, co-editor of Family Violence and Men of Color, a series of motivational health and healing CD’s and author of the recently released award winning book “Recovering Your Sacredness.”
Jerry is from a family of Mexican, Texan and (Koa-wilt-con) roots and raised in the south central, Compton areas of Los Angeles.
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