Leadership

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Meet Our Board Members: Jasen Toussaint
Jasen Toussaint is a member of our Associate Board and is a Senior Recruiting Manager at Connect Search, LLC. Get…
March 3, 2020
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Born: Chicago
College and major: University of Illinois at Chicago, criminal justice
Position: Special Investigator for the Illinois Attorney General Office for 25 years (now retired)
“My retirement was an early retirement to get to another gig – I’m trying to become an investigator for Cook County. This is a transitional retirement.”
“I was in the military, the Army, and I was in the National Guard and went into the reserves the last five years and I loved Germany – loved, loved, loved Germany. Just the country – it was clean, it was nice, a lot of culture; a lot of history. It was a good time.”
“My grandmother – she’s the one that taught me how to love.”
“I grew up in the Cabrini Green housing projects and I left home when I was 14. I was on the street for about two years, got to Mercy Home and started this journey… It was a broken home – my mother was married to my stepfather – he was a dog so we didn’t get along – we bumped heads all the time. It was probably the most stressful time in my life. And actually, when I left home and was living on the streets, ironically, I felt at peace. A friend of mine had a probation officer that he was talking to, and he was a ward of the state and he had just found a new place to stay at some state-run facility. And since I didn’t have any place to stay, I was asking if it’d be possible for me to stay at that place. And he was like, ‘no, you have to be a ward of the state. But there’s a wonderful place on the Near West Side called Mercy Home for Boys,’ – there weren’t any girls at the time. And I was like, ‘a boys home? Why would I want to live in a boys home?’ I didn’t have anywhere else to turn, and one day I just walked over there just to see what it was like. And the day I walked over there to see what it was like was the day I walked through the door, and I stayed until I graduated out of college.”
“It’s family. It’s very personal to me, anybody that knows me knows. I know it’s called Mercy Home for Boys & Girls, but it was the only home I knew after I left home. And the cool part is, you always get a welcoming mat rolled out whenever you come back, which is how you should feel when you come back home.”
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