Hashim Garrett

Motivational Speaker

Walking down a Brooklyn, New York, street with some older ‘friends’ (gangstas) one day, 15-year-old Hashim Garrett was shot six times by another boy with a semi-automatic rifle. Suffering a spinal cord injury, Hashim was paralyzed from the waist down, yet he has never let his paralysis hold him back from a life of remarkable change and achievements.

Hashim has recently begun work on his Master’s degree in human services at Lincoln University. After spending six years presenting Harvard Violence Prevention Curriculum to more than 15,000 US students, Hashim founded ‘Wisdom and Understanding LLC’, a conflict resolution and life enhancement organization that educates adolescents about the causes of conflicts and the importance of education, and enlightens all people to the consequences of their actions.

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"The victims of violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed."

Robert F. Kennedy