Jimmy is the Executive Director of InsideOUT Writers (IOW), a nonprofit organization that provides weekly creative writing classes inside Los Angeles County juvenile halls and offers re-entry services to formerly incarcerated youth and young adults. IOW also offers a youth diversion program for eligible youth in lieu of incarceration altogether. Separately, Jimmy has been a Re-entry Coordinator with Stanford Law School's Ride Home Program and has traveled throughout the United States to pick up over a dozen people granted executive clemency through President Barack Obama's Clemency Initiative. Jimmy is also a Guest Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, and teaches the course, "Arts-in-Correctional Institutions," which focuses on the importance of providing arts-based programs to incarcerated persons. Jimmy's work has been featured on NBC News and The Kelly Clarkson Show and he was named in Good Morning America's, "Who is Making APPI History in 2021: The GMA Inspiration List."