Jihid Maye

Jihid Maye is a Stoneleigh Youth Advocacy Fellow at Juvenile Law Center. Jihid has been a youth advocate with Juvenile Law Center since 2017. As a youth advocate, Jihid has been making changes where they are needed. He worked on projects to help foster kids go to college for free, bring a youth ombudsperson to Philadelphia, and is still trying to make change fighting for PA House Bill 1381, a juvenile justice reform package. 

He is also a Certified Peer Specialist Community Health Worker and Researcher and consultant with Johns Hopkins University through mental health and trauma informed care for youth in juvenile legal system. His positive energy motivates him to do the work he does today and to continue making positive changes in the law. He got into advocacy work because he was involved in the legal system and saw issues most people cannot see because of their standpoint, so he brings ideas and solutions from both inside and outside the system.