Christopher Jaffe

Christopher Jaffe, AM, LCSW, is a Chicago-based social-service innovator, specializing in youth violence prevention. With two decades of experience in the field, he has supported more than twenty organizations to design and implement youth-serving programs at scale. Christopher has served on the Senior Leadership Team of Heartland Human Care Services, Youth Guidance’s Becoming a Man (BAM) Program, as a subject matter expert for the World Bank and J-PAL, on the Board of Directors of CAASE and UChicago’s Crown School, and has worked with organizations across the US, UK, South Africa, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Netherlands. He holds a master’s degree from UChicago’s Crown School and a BA from DePaul University.