Julman Tolentino

Julman Tolentino is a social justice worker, educator, counselor, and program developer whose work is grounded in liberation sociology.  
His extensive experience working with community-based organizations, both nationally and locally, includes co-founding and directing the Jersey City-based youth leadership development non-profit Sumisibol. Julman has a MSW with a concentration in Community Organizing from Hunter College's School of Social Work. He currently supports Credible Messengers, justice-impacted individuals who work to keep young people out of the juvenile justice system and to reduce violence within their communities overall. In addition to this, he teaches courses in the MSW program at Columbia University's School of Social Work. 

Julman has created and facilitated anti-oppression trainings and retreats for students, educators, and social service providers. He has run yearly summer social justice camps for youth from high schools throughout NY and NJ and has even developed trainings for educators and social service providers. Julman has also administered projects that work to undo sexism and patriarchy, including running a monthly men's group in NYC and co-coordinating & co-facilitating the Uprooting Patriarchy retreat at Columbia University's School of Social Work. In efforts to address institutional and interpersonal racism - in particular anti-Blackness, he has designed workshops for Asians/Asian Americans, which he has conducted at numerous conferences and for various community-based organizations.