Tshaka Barrows

For the past seven years, Tshaka Barrows has served as the Program Manager for CJNY, a program of the W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI). CJNY is a national network of community-based agencies working primarily with youth of color and low income youth involved or at risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system. The focus is to keep young people out of detention and in their communities. Currently Tshaka is spearheading the development of community engagement strategies that empower community members to hold their juvenile justice systems accountable for racial and ethnic disparities.

Tshaka has served as faculty to the Youth Justice Learning Group, The Youth Transitions Funders Group and The National Youth Initiative, in addition to providing consultation to the Cook County Probation Department’s Juvenile Advisory Council.

Prior to his work at the BI, Tshaka graduated with a Political Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. While there, he lead a student government initiative to fully fund student groups focused on cross-cultural programming and diversity education. He also developed and coordinated anti-racial profiling campaigns both on the state level in Wisconsin and federal level through the United States Student Association.

Phone: 415-321-4100 x106
Fax: 415-321-4140
Email: tbarrows@burnsinstitute.org