Empowering Survivor Families: Jireh Shalom Foundation's Mission
Who We Are
Founder
Isa Farrington Nichols
Isa Farrington Nichols is the Jireh-Shalom Foundation founder, a non-profit charitable foundation providing “InPowerMent” resources for children, families, and communities in domestic violence intervention and prevention worldwide. She is an author and is publishing her first book Genesis: The Bullet Was Meant For ME, DC Sniper Story Untold. Currently, Ms. Nichols is the proud mother of two daughters and three granddaughters. She currently resides in Tacoma, Washington. She is a Servant Leader who provides leadership, economic development, and financial management to her community. She has co-established the Collaboratorium, a collaboration of organizations and professionals committed to the “InPowerMent” of children, families, and communities.
Consultant
Enako Major
Enako Major is originally from Los Angeles, California. For over 15 years she has worked to benefit communities on the margins through social justice advocacy. Making the Gospel portable Enako serves as an advocate for many community organizations like, Child Welfare, Jireh-Shalom Foundation, Starting Over Project, and Crime Survivors For Safety and Justice California to name a few. She is employed by Riverside University Health Systems Community Health Clinics; and is the Founder of TailorMade2020, an organization that advocates for those impacted by trauma. Enako is active at her local church and enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, traveling, and doing advocacy work.
Consultant emerita
Maxine Mimms
Maxine Mimms is a retired educator, Founder of Tacoma Evergreen State College, Tacoma, Washington. In 2004. She later founded the award-winning Maxine Mimms Academies, a non-profit organization in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood, to serve youth expelled or suspended from public schools. With “Embrace the Indigenous Genius of Every Child,” the Maxine Mimms Academies successfully returned 550 middle and high school students to public school. They became the advocate for displaced youth and legislative bills that extended and expanded effective ways of educating children failing in public schools. The decrease in school to prison pipeline was realized through these efforts. In 2009 Mimms retired as Executive Director. She is currently a consultant for interdisciplinary curriculum design and education. She has provided leadership and guidance to public and private schools – including the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa and the Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts in East Orange, New Jersey.