Associate Professor of psychology, Morehouse College. Executive Director, The Morehouse Research Institute. Associate Pastor, Mt. Welcome Missionary Baptist Church. Commissioner, The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. Trustee, Morehouse College. Expertise: the psychology of Black males; Black males in STEM; Black male success in higher education. Born and raised in Queens, New York. B.A. from Morehouse College (psychology major, economics minor). Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan. Married to Kimberly Marks, father of Kim, Zion, and Asa.