Jerry Hawkins
Jerry Hawkins is the Executive Director of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation, and the co-founder of The Imagining Freedom Institute (The IF Institute). Jerry is a 2022-2023 Independent Sector Bridging Fellow, a 2020-21 Presidential Leadership Scholar, a 2019 Leadership Arts Institute Fellow, and a Dallas County Historical Commission Member. Jerry also serves on the boards of Leadership ISD, Deep Vellum Books, AccessH2O and Young Leaders, Strong City. Jerry has been awarded PBS/KERA's American Graduate Champion in 2017, an Outstanding Child Advocate at CHILDREN AT RISK’s Texas Academy Awards of Child Advocacy in 2020, was selected as one of the “Dallas 500 Most Powerful Business Leaders in North Texas” in 2021 and 2022 by D CEO/D Magazine, and was a 2022 nominee for "Best Community Leader" by The Dallas Weekly. Jerry’s first editorial offering, A People’s History of Dallas, will be published in late 2023 by Deep Vellum Books.