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Iesha Sekou is a community organizer, youth organizer, youth educator, and anti-violence activist for three decades. She is the founder and CEO of the non-profit 'Street Corner Resources, Inc', and the Peace Cafe in Harlem, New York City. Her organization assist the New York City community in providing youth and adults in self-development. She is a motivational speaker. She is an advocate encouraging youth to eliminate gun and gang violence.

She is a radio host for at Street Corner Resources LIVE, a community affairs radio show.

Early life
Sekou grow up in the South Bronx. She has said that she gets her inspiration from her mother who was community minded.

Education
Sekou has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethune Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Career
Sekou started Street Corner Resources in 2007, a nonprofit. SCR is a gun violence prevention group located in Harlem. Street Corner Resources is a part of New York City's Cure Violence Program.

Sekou engages young people by helping them to express themselves by using her radio show, Peace Cafe, newspapers, and music. She teaches youth how to lobby. They have lobbied at the New York State and Washington D.C. State Capital. They lobbied for changes to gun laws, and for youth programs.

Iesha Sekou is a vendor with NYC Department of Education.

March of 2022, Iesha Sekou one of the founding organizers of the 1st Annual Human Justice Public Safety Symposium. It was a dialogue between community members and the NYPD.

Awards

 * Sekou received a Congressional Proclamation from the US House of Representative
 * Manhattan Borough President's Trailblazer award
 * Proclamation for service to youth
 * A citation for service and leadership the City Council

Quotes
I always say the trigger is pulled long before the trigger is pulled. There are a whole series of possibilities of things that happen that leads a kid to feel like it's okay to pull the trigger. And the consequences don't even matter. And so those things have to do with housing, poor nutrition, mental health issues, lack of education -Iesha Sekou

“I said we have to educate kids, find out what they like, and use that to get them to think about their behavior and its consequences,” Sekou said in an interview with NewsOne.