Jonathan Garrett Green, J.D.

Jonathan Garrett Green, J.D. (he/him), is an executive-level program architect, civil rights strategist, and nationally certified mediator whose career has been built on a foundational conviction: that ethical integrity is not layered onto effective programs — it is the load-bearing structure from which every durable program is built. As the macro-designs system strategist of the New Jersey Community Peacemaker Collaborative, and through his community relations engagements as Lead Community Mediator of the New Jersey office of the Attorney General’s Department of Law & Public Safety, Division on Civil Rights and Field Supervisor of the Crisis Response Unit for statewide community-urgent response of biased discrimination during high-tension conflict between communities. He is the designer the training curricula of the AHMS Resolving Differences + Streetwise 101 H.E.L.P. programs.

Jonathan has operationalized the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators and the ABA's professional ethics framework not as compliance requirements but as the design philosophy governing every coalition he has built, every program he has launched, and every community he has served. With 15+ years spanning civil rights enforcement under a Governor-appointed Attorney General, national nonprofit program management, federal grant development, cross-ideological stakeholder coalition building, and strategic communications leadership, Jonathan brings to executive program leadership the rare combination of practitioner credibility, institutional gravitas, and architectural innovation that transforms organizations from mission-driven to mission-delivering.

EDUCATION

JURIS DOCTORATE | Southern University Law Center | 2016

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE | Troy University | 2012

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE | University of South Alabama | 2009

CERTIFICATIONS & PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

• Resolving Differences: Facilitator Train-the-Trainer | American Humanity

Mediation Service | 11/2025

• Resolving Differences: Training | American Humanity Mediation Service | 11/2025

• National Professional Certification in Mediation | National Association of Certified

Mediators | #890034 | 01/2024–01/2026

• Dialogues on Race Facilitator | U.S. Department of Justice — Community Relations

Service | 08/2023

• Google Digital Marketing & E-Commerce Certification | Coursera | 06/2023• Google Project Management Certification | Coursera | 05/2023

• Community Mediator Training | Mediation Center of the Coastal Empire | 04/2023

• Civil Rights Mediator Training | Divided Community Project — The Ohio State

University Moritz School of Law | 08/2022

• Certified Circuit Civil Mediator | Florida Supreme Court | #35453R | 06/2017–

06/2019

• Florida Educator's Subject Area Certification | Florida Department of Education |

08/2017–05/2020

• 40 Hours of Mediation Training | Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service |

08/2015

• Certified Child Welfare Protective Investigator | State of Florida Certification Board

| #6627 | 06/2012–06/2013

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & CIVIC SERVICE

• Member, National Association for Community Mediation

• Associate Member (Past), American Bar Association — Dispute Resolution Section

• State Affiliate, Black Voters Matter Fund of Florida | 08/2020–Present

• Member, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. | 03/2005–Present (Local Chapter

Polemarch 05/18–05/19; Vice-Polemarch 05/17–05/18)

• Co-Chair & Committee Member, Pensacola Citizen's Police Advisory Committee |

06/2020–04/2021

• Candidate (NPA), U.S. House of Representatives — Florida District 01 | 12/2024–

02/2025

• Senior Project Manager & Lead Organizer, Escambia County Good Trouble Seekers:

Roll to the Poll Campaign | 10/2020–11/2020

• Candidate, Mayor of Pensacola, Florida | 05/2018–08/2018