Meet Jermeen

Jermeen Sherman is a social impact consultant working to elevate community led transformations across social services to improve life and generational outcomes for vulnerable communities.

She combines the best of strategic and analytical thinking from the business world with an unrelenting commitment to equity-focused systems change as a social impact consultant. She leverages more than 10 years of cross-sector expertise in public sector management consulting, business development, program design, and strategic communication to help organizations be of service to vulnerable communities, implement strategic initiatives, and scale positive outcomes.

Having worked in and alongside executive teams in consultancies, community-based organizations, universities, and municipal government, Jermeen has diverse experience helping organizations better serve under-resourced communities and advance equity.

Prior to founding Community Up, Jermeen was a Director at a government and non-profit advisory firm where she led partnerships with government, nonprofit partners, and service providers to leverage data, build feedback loops, and develop incentive structures to drive resources to improve well-being outcomes for social services recipients.

Jermeen has worked with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family services as a consultant and chief of staff to lead a variety of cross-sector strategic planning and community-based human-centered design initiatives to strengthen the continuum of prevention services and improve service delivery to children and families, leading projects from strategy through action and results.

Jermeen has a BA in philosophy and history from Emory University, an MA in mass communication from Georgia State University, and an MBA with a specialization in social impact from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Recent Partner Reviews

-"Unquestionably, Jermeen is one of the most exceptional Next Generation leaders to emerge in the national child welfare and human services landscape. She was unapologetically thorough in executing complex organizational reforms, rigorously astute in navigating system politics and undeniably essential in delivering organizational impact. Most of all, it was Jermeen's intellectual honesty, unparalleled integrity and abiding ethos that left us in complete awe."

H. Lien Bragg

SANCTUARY SEVEN, Principal + Chief Strategic Counsel

"Working alongside Jermeen has been one of the highlights of my career. She is adept at navigating complex organizations and systems, brings an incredible aptitude for deeply understanding challenges and their context, and has an uncanny ability to collaborate with a range of stakeholders to bring projects to life and drive social impact. She's one of the first calls I make for any new project and would be an asset to any organization looking to create meaningful community, organizational, or systems-level change."

Jessica Mason

Founder, The Social Impact Studio | Executive Director, Cooperatives for a Better World | Co-Director, Start.coop

"There really are not adequate words to describe Jermeen. She is bright, accomplished, detailed oriented, reflective, determined, passionate and self led. All these qualities she exhibited in her role as my Special Assistant in Los Angles for the Department of Children and Family Services. She is a gifted and thoughtful leader and she worked along side me to shape our way forward in becoming a child and family well being organization. She anticipates challenges and provides thoughtful solutions and was such a value add to my team."

Ginger Pryor

Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, Chief Deputy Director