Jim Murphy (skateboarder)

James Murphy, known as Jim Murphy, is an American skateboarder, writer, artist, skateboard company owner and skateboarding activist, born on 11 October 1965. He is of Lenni-Lenape and Irish descent and started skateboarding in 1976. In the 1980s he turned pro the day after graduating from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, home to Tom Groholski's ramp, and later toured with the Alva skateboard company. He and Walt Pourier co-founded the Stronghold Society, of which he is the skate parks director, and together they developed the Wounded Knee Four Directions Skatepark Program, dedicated to creating and sustaining skateparks in Native American communities.