Britton Masback
Co-Founder & Co-Leader
Britt, 18, is a freshman at Princeton University. Britt co-founded GYE in 2018 with the organization’s inaugural trip to Georgia, and now co-leads our team with Seth and Solomon.
Britt is the director of the WANT Summer Fellows Program, an annual summer journalism fellowship for budding high school journalists, held each year at the University of Oregon School of Journalism in Portland. Britt started Youth Educating Police (YEP) in 2017 to reduce tensions between young people and police officers by creating and disseminating training modules that provide police departments with the youth point-of-view on crucial issues. In 2019, Britt was appointed by the Mayor to serve on the Portland Commission for Community Engaged Policing (PCCEP) and the Police Chief to serve on the Training Advisory Council (TAC) where he advises city leaders on policing strategy and community engagement. Since 2017, Britt has also served on the Multnomah Youth Commission (MYC), a council of 28 civically minded young people from across the city, where he sits on the Youth Against Violence Subcommittee as a Voting member.
Britt is motivated by Gandhi’s admonition that, “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing there will be no results.” More at www.brittonmasback.us