Julius Thibodeaux-Hasan is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Movement 4 Life, which is a Community Based Organization aimed at ending cyclical and retaliatory gun violence in Sacramento, California. Julius helped lead the city of Sacramento on a historical run of 28 months with no juvenile homicides from 2018- 2020. Prior to the historic run, the city had never experienced one year without a juvenile homicide. He is also the CEO of Beautiful Evolutions a nonprofit designed to compliment community-based organizations like M4L in areas of LifeSkills education, mentorship, and transformational travel. Beautiful Evolutions does most of its work mentoring residents housed in Sacramento’s Youth Detention Facility and working in local high schools with high propensity for violence.

Julius is also the resident Imam at Masjid AsSabur Sacramento, the first masjid in Northern California built from the gound up by African American Muslims.
Julius is a graduate of the University of Chicago’s Inaugural Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy more widely known as CVILA.
He is the recipient of the 2023 CAIR (Council On American Islamic Relations)Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Most Vulnerable Trauma Impacted Communities in Sacramento County. He’s also the recipient of the 2020 9th Annual Men of Honor Award

Finally Julius is the published author of “Cultivation of the Heart “. A 5 Star self help book on Amazon’s best sellers list for months; this book is a must read for anyone working to end gun violence and effectively operate in this space of re-imagining public safety.
Julius is a loving husband, girl dad to 4 beautiful women and has 4 grandchilgdren. As his Sister and fellow graduate of Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy Freedom Jones would say “Julius is definitely a brother who CARES WITH COURAGE “