Jeremy Del Rio

Jeremy Del Rio, Esq. consults churches and community groups on youth development, social justice, and cultural engagement. He is the co-founder and lead architect of 20/20 Vision for Schools, a movement to transform public education that launched in New York City in 2008 (related report). He co-founded and directs Community Solutions, Inc., a holistic youth agency that provides services in Manhattan through Generation Xcel, and hosts service learning missions trips nationally through Chain Reaction. Jeremy is the founding youth pastor at Abounding Grace Ministries, and also worked as a corporate attorney in New York. He maintains the weblog, Away with Words: In Pursuit of Authenticity that offers free media downloads and articles. He has published dozens of articles and contributions to four books. He and his wife Diana have two sons, Judah and Cyrus.