Khary Lazarre-White

Born and raised in New York City, Khary is a social entrepreneur, educator, non-profit executive, writer and attorney. Khary received his Bachelors in Arts, with honors, from Brown University, and his Juris Doctorate from the Yale Law School where his focus was international human rights law and constitutional law. In 1995, at the age of 21, Khary co-founded The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (BHSS), a now nationally renowned non-profit city-wide youth organization. Over the last 20 years Khary has been recognized for his leadership in providing some of the most innovative and highly successful practices in the nation. His awards include the Oprah Winfrey’s Angel Network Use Your Life Award, as well as from institutions that include The Ford Foundation, Black Girls Rock, Andrew Goodman Foundation, Union Square Awards, Brown University, The National Recreation Foundation’s Robert W. Crawford Achievement Prize and the national NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund/Shearman & Sterling Law Scholarship Award that supported his legal studies. Khary has garnered an array of media coverage for his work, including appearing as a regular commentator on MSNBC, and also appearing on CNN, The Oprah Winfrey Show, PBS, FOX, ABC and NBC and in an array of print publications. Khary has edited several publications of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol and contributed assorted curriculum workshops and pedagogical writings to these collections. He writes regular opinion pieces for the Huffington Post, and has had essays published by Nation Books, Essence Magazine, AfterSchool Matters, Vineyard Gazette, MSNBC’s thegrio.com and New York University Press. Khary has extensive experience as a public speaker on issues of education, public policy, US Constitutional law issues, reform of the NYPD’s stop and frisk policy, community organizing, leadership development, management and politics. Khary was appointed by then New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the Advisory Board of NYC’s Young Men’s Initiative and has been reappointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio. In addition, Khary serves on the Advisory Council for the CUNY School for Public Health and the Board of Advisors for the Heinz Endowment’s Black Male Initiative and previously served on the New York City Council Task Force on Guns and Violence and on the National Board of Advisors for Susan L. Taylor’s National CARES Mentoring Movement. Khary is a member of the Bar in the States of New Jersey and New York.