A.T. Mitchell-Mann
Founder of Man Up! Inc. · Public-safety strategist

Safety is built.

A.T. Mitchell-Mann builds trusted organizations and develops community leaders to help cities prevent violence and strengthen public safety.

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Founder · Strategist · Author · Practitioner
A record of actionFrom East New York to citywide strategy.
30+ yearsFrontline public-safety work
2004Founded Man Up! Inc.
2022Appointed task-force co-chair

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BLOOMBERG PUBLIC HEALTHNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUESOUNDTHINKING
The story

Built in the neighborhood.

A.T. Mitchell-Mann with community members at Daesean Hill Drive
East New York · Brooklyn

A.T. Mitchell-Mann was born and raised in Brooklyn. In 2004, after eight-year-old Daesean Hill was killed by gunfire, he helped transform grief and outrage into Man Up! Inc.—a community organization committed to interrupting violence and creating real alternatives for young people and families.

Man Up! adopted the Cure Violence public-health model in 2009, pairing credible messengers and conflict mediation with education, employment, mentoring, fatherhood engagement, arts, sports, and emergency support.

“Public safety is what becomes possible when a community has resources, relationships, and a reason to believe.”

That ground-level experience positioned A.T. to shape citywide strategy—not as an outsider studying communities, but as a practitioner accountable to them.

2004

Man Up! begins

A community response becomes a lasting institution.

2009

Public-health model

Man Up! adopts the Cure Violence approach.

2022

Citywide leadership

Appointed co-chair of NYC’s prevention task force.

2023

The blueprint

Community insight informs a $485M+ safety strategy.

Leadership platform

He builds what safety requires.

Four connected areas define A.T.'s national contribution: community infrastructure, public policy, practitioner development, and healing-centered leadership.

01 · FOUNDER

Movement Builder

Builds trusted institutions that turn community relationships into sustained action.

02 · STRATEGIST

Policy Architect

Translates frontline expertise into citywide strategy, investment, and accountability.

03 · EDUCATOR

Workforce Builder

Professionalizes credible-messenger leadership through training, credentials, and mobility.

04 · AUTHOR

Healing Advocate

Centers restoration and care for the people carrying communities through crisis.

The work

From intervention to infrastructure.

A.T.’s platform connects immediate violence intervention with opportunity, healing, professional development, policy, and sustained investment.

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01
Community power

Man Up! Inc.

One of the country’s most consequential grassroots community-violence organizations—rooted in East New York and built around credible messengers, youth, families, and opportunity.

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02
Workforce development

Incredible Messenger University

A.T.’s 12-week academy prepares community violence intervention practitioners for safer, more effective work. Cohort 1 brought together 37 people from 13 organizations; 31 graduated.

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A.T. Mitchell-Mann with national community-violence leaders
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Author & thought leader

Heal the people who heal communities.

Andre “A.T.” Mitchell-Mann and Lakeesha Eure, LCSW · Foreword by Mayor Ras J. Baraka

10 Steps to Healing the Wounded Healer is a guide to personal restoration for frontline workers and leaders in violence prevention. It offers a practical path through secondary trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue.

A.T.’s related academic work advances a culturally grounded model that recognizes the emotional cost of carrying communities through crisis.

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Press & recognition

The work in public.

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National leadership

Frontline experience belongs in every room where safety is decided.

A.T.’s work has been recognized by BET, CBS New York, City & State, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health, the National Urban League, and public-safety leaders nationwide.

NYC Mayor’s Office · 2023A Blueprint for Community SafetyRead
Journal of Social Justice in Action · 2025Healed People Heal People: A Wounded Healer ModelRead
BET · 2015Hero of the Hood: Andre T. MitchellView
Press & honors

Recognized across sectors.

NYC Gun Violence Prevention Task ForceAppointed co-chair · 2022
Brooklyn Power 100City & State New York · 2022 and 2023
Hero of the HoodBET national profile
Just & SafeNational Urban League
Public Health LeadershipJohns Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health
The Black Picket FenceFeatured documentary subject
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Speaking & advisory

Bring lived expertise to the room.

A.T. brings more than three decades of frontline leadership to government, universities, foundations, public-safety convenings, community organizations, and corporate audiences.

  • Building community-safety ecosystems
  • From credible messenger to public leader
  • Healing secondary trauma
  • Scaling community violence intervention
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