Baton Rouge native and LCCR Mitigation Specialist has always had a passion to serve the underserved and underrepresented and believes LCCR is a direct force in the fight for youth justice and opportunity for those who would otherwise have no voice.
Corey is a previous recipient of the Baton Rouge AIDS Society’s The Carl Nelson Youth Service Award and is motivated to give the youth of our state hope despite the system they experience, which “deprives them of the ability to see and know who they really are.” He believes the mind must be renewed first and then the fight for equal justice take its place among the various battles that people of all walks of life encounter daily.
His career path has been informed by his own personal experience as a youth with the juvenile legal system which provided him with perspective on how “certain communities were designed to feed the narrative that we are all criminals” and as a middle school teacher witnessing the experiences of both friends and his students. The husband and father of three also mentors Black boys in the Scotlandville area of Baton Rouge and has a Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling and Disability Research.
Email: cjenkins@lakidsrights.org
