Spotlight: Dr. Anthony Jewett

By October 10, 2019 News, Newsletter
Dr. Anthony Jewitt

Dr. Anthony Jewett is the Managing Partner of SW Florida Impact Partners LLP and a fourth generation native of Fort Myers and the Dunbar Community. His deep understanding of the history of Southwest Florida in concert with his work focusing on social change has made him a natural fit to help lead the FutureMakers Equity Action Team. Dr. Jewett and the entire Equity Action Team will be presenting a compelling Implicit Bias training offered monthly at Collaboratory beginning in January of 2020.

In his current role with SW Florida Impact Partners, Anthony manages the day-to-day affairs of the partnership and its work in neighborhood renewal alongside the Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency. His career began as a classroom teacher with Teach for America in New York City. He was awarded a 2006 Echoing Green Public Service fellowship to establish a youth-serving nonprofit and worked on the foundation team of a private family office. He has been a Fellow at Tides Foundation in San Francisco, an Innovation Fellow at Movement Strategy Center in Oakland, and an Integrated Capital Fellow with RSF Social Finance, and an Advisory Board Member to a student-led honor society at his alma mater, Morehouse College. Anthony holds a B.A. from Morehouse College and a doctorate from Harvard University.