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 | As a Lay spiritual leader, Dr. Leo Pinkett has a daily purpose is to create vision and value congruence across a strategic empowered team to foster a higher faith-based commitment to Christ. Dr. Pinkett is the General Secretary for the Department of Ministry to Men for the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church world-wide, Pan Methodist Commission member, and founder of the “Paradigm Pioneers”. These programs help impact men, youth, and families both spiritually and economically to do more than just exist but to excel as productive citizens. With these organizations, Dr. Leo Pinkett constantly insure that all Methodist communions collaborate as a group effort to bridge the gap for a better future. Dr. Leo Pinkett, A.C.E., L.U.T.C. is the graduate of the prestigious historical black institution, Morehouse College, where he earned an undergraduate degree in Business Administration. Immediately after graduation, he landed a position as a Special Agent with Prudential Life Insurance. As the youngest and the first African American in the company for the southeast region, he developed the company’s first fully detached agency division in the country. While continuously providing affordable financial protection to families of all nationalities, he was honored with the Presidential Citation Award for 4 consecutive years. This in turn assisted in creating strong ties with businesses and community efforts partnering together to strengthen the urban community. Moreover, this model was implemented and duplicated throughout the company nationwide. Dr. Leo Pinkett has been inducted as a life member in the Million-Dollar Round Table, which commemorate top sales agents in the life insurance profession worldwide. After completing several successful years in management and training dozens of young professionals, he ventured out to start his own insurance agency, L.P. International Marketing Group, Inc., focussing on life and annuity sales. Dr. Leo Pinkett has been committed to the industry for over 35 years and has earned advance certifications in business planning and estate planning, including the distinguish honorary doctorate degree of Humane Letters from Texas College. |
| Dr. Joshua W. Murfree, Jr. serves as the fourteenth superintendent of the Dougherty County School System. Dr. Murfree previously served as the executive assistant to the president, administrative chief of staff and director of athletics at Albany State University. In the realm of academics, Dr. Murfree is a full professor with tenure. He formerly served as the chairman of the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Social Work at Albany State University. He served as the director of the Center for the African-American Male and former director of the Honors Program. He served in the capacity of faculty representative to the NCAA Division II for four years. At the 2006 National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) national convention, Dr. Murfree received the National Alumni Award from Fort Valley State University. Dr. Murfree has been appointed as the superintendent of schools in Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia.
Dr. Murfree serves as the national/international mentoring chairman of 100 Black Men of America, Inc. He also serves on the executive committee for 100 Black Men of America, Inc. as the vice-chairman of programs. Under his auspices are the program areas of economic development, education, health and wellness and mentoring. Dr. Murfree is the architect of one of the most comprehensive mentoring programs in the country known as “Mentoring the 100 Way" (now "Mentoring the 100 Way Across a Lifetime”). The mentoring program presently serves 116 chapters in 32 states representing 10,000 members and 125,000 children, youth and their families in America, Africa, the Caribbean basin and the United Kingdom.
Dr. Murfree served on the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) committee for the Dougherty County School System during the 2003-2004 academic year. Dr. Murfree serves as the internal co-liaison for the SACS team at Albany State University. He also serves on the RIF Multicultural National Advisory Board in Washington, D.C. and on the National Cares Committee (Formerly Essence Cares) which has the collective goal to secure 2,000,000 mentors for 2,000,000 African-American males.
He has appeared on C-SPAN with Bill Cosby, Eleanor Norton-Holmes, Dr. Alvin Puissant and others discussing the state of African-American males. Dr. Murfree appears in the December 2008 issue of Ebony Magazine for his work in mentoring as the architect of "Mentoring the 100 Way." Dr. Murfree appeared June 13, 2010, on MSNBC discussing the dropout rates of African-Americans, the pipeline to prison, parental involvement, community involvement and the misdiagnosis of children resulting in the disproportionate number of African-Americans placed in special education. He has done numerous opening sessions at the Congressional Black Caucus.
Dr. Murfree is board certified as a forensic examiner, specializing in interviewing and clinical diagnostic assessment. He is board certified in psychotherapy, a certified criminal justice specialist, and a certified masters addiction counselor.
Dr. Murfree is married to the beautiful and former Samantha Wilson who presently serves as associate vice president for student affairs at Southern Wesleyan University in Central, South Carolina. Dr. Murfree has a daughter, Tabitha, who holds a baccalaureate degree in social science, with concentrations in psychology and sociology from Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Albany State University.
Dr. Murfree is a member of Institutional First Baptist Church, Albany, Georgia, under the leadership of Dr. Eugene Sherman.
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| Rev. James Bernard Kynes, Sr. is an African American, an ordained Methodist minister(CME), married for thirty-four (34) years, father of four adult children with two grandchildren. He has been a Pastoral Counseling since 1992 and became licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist May 1998. His clinical work adheres to strict Codes of Ethics as required by the State of Georgia Composite Board for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is a certified Fellow of the the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and a Clinical Member and an Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Rev. James Bernard Kynes's life experiences suggest that individuals usually want immediate relief from their emotional pain that is being experienced in the context of a significant relationship. Rev. James Bernard Kynes provides consultation for individuals, couples/marriage, family, and in therapy groups. He works with individuals by providing a space for critical self-reflection on and the discovery of resolutions for presenting concerns. His intent is to listen with an objective/subjective non-anxious presence while developing an interactive therapeutic relationship. His work includes adolescence within the family context, couples seeking to develop the optimal relationship for both persons, and families--nuclear and step. Rev. James Bernard Kynes's counseling is an integration of theological education and my advanced level of training in the social sciences of human development. He has a Masters of Divinity from The Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta Ga. He is known for using biblical narratives as meaningful metaphors to provide insight regarding your relational healing and growth. Rev. Kynes' also has advanced level/post-graduate doctorial training in Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, primarily using Object Relations and Family Systems Theories as a clinical framework. These theories enhances his understanding of our human development and our human complexities—emotional, intellectual, spiritual and physical.
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| Arthur Powell was exposed to the criminal elements of the streets at the early age of 13. By the age of 15, he became involved with neighborhood cliques, which later became recognized as gangs. When Arthur reached the age of 19, he met a drug dealer who took him in and gave him power to terrify anyone who was against their family (gang), which was called “I Refuse Posse”. From 1988-1992, I Refuse Posse reigned terror on the streets of Atlanta. Arthur Powell was a major contributor to much of the gang violence that took place in Atlanta. In the latter years of his gang affiliation, things began to take a turn.
Though Arthur Powell was separated from the gang, his hunger for the streets did not subside. He became involved in more violent criminal activities that eventually caused him to serve eleven years and six months in the Georgia Penal System. During his prison term, Arthur was encouraged by published author Rosebud Dixon-Green, and her daughter Tiffany Brown to write about his life as a former gang leader. Considering Arthur’s affiliation with gangs in the past and having served a lengthy prison term, he can offer a large magnitude of insight into the world of youth violence, street life, and give solutions to prevent criminal and gang activity. Arthur hopes his life testimony will inspire and motivate our children to make the right decisions and stay away from a life of crime in street gangs. Arthur Powell is a lead strategist and motivational speaker with several metropolitan crime and gang prevention initiatives.
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