Ashton Burrell on Clubhouse

Bio

Ashton Burrell is the founder of the Hometownheroclub and Live Mentorship Program (LMP), which he founded in 2011 while a sophomore at Lincoln University. LMP was created to provide mentoring to all youth between the ages of 9 to 19 from different paths and cultures of life within his surrounding communities. Burrell developed a strong bond with the youths that was life-altering. The program maintains a 100% graduation rate for every senior that has been in the program. Since 2011 Burrell has helped and inspired over 3000 students to graduate from high school.

Mr. Burrell’s activities are not limited to mentoring. He has organized marches and rallies for social justice and judicial equity, advocates for all communities, petitions corporations for fairness and diversity in hiring practices. Mr. Burrell has also help lead efforts throughout the Nation. These efforts have helped over 500 victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, TX and Hurricane Florence in North Carolina. Burrell has also helped lead efforts to provide over 250 books to schools in West Philadelphia and so much more.

Mr. Burrell is the Chairman of the Human Relations Council for the State of New Jersey as a Governor appointed member, a member of the NAACP New Brunswick Branch Executive Board, and Chairman of the Highland Park Human Relations Commission. After being honored by the state of New Jersey as a Community Leader, Burrell used that momentum to begin making major moves that would not only reach our youth, but ultimately people in communities around the world. Constantly receiving notoriety for all of his contributions, Burrell sacked more awards, earning popular features in U.S.A. Today, OWN Network and BET. For his many social and community engagements, Mr. Burrell was recognized with the Johnson and Johnson MLK Community Service Award at the Johnson and Johnson headquarters. Burrell also received the NAACP New Brunswick's branch President's award, The Spread the Word 2nd Annual Humanitarian Award, Highland Park MLK Humanitarian award and other great awards of recognition. He has also authored and published his first book, A Breakdown of Impact. Burrell has presented lectures and speeches at Princeton University, The University of Cape-town South Africa, Rutgers University and many more places and schools throughout the Nation.

Ashton Burrell is a proud graduate of Lincoln University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Master of Science in Business degree with a concentration in Human Resources Management.