Bio

Rick Newell left a good career in technology to work with youth at the Rotary Boys and Girls Club in Seattle. From his time there he came to firmly believe that the need of the hour in the urban core is positive male role models. To meet this need, he started the M.U.S.T. mentoring program. M.U.S.T. finds African American males who are in college and pays them to mentor the most vulnerable high school Black males. Rick left M.U.S.T. in capable hands and is now building a new mentoring organization using the same unique and effective mentoring model. This new organization is called Route 21 and serves the most underserved and vulnerable youth in the country, youth in foster care.