Featured Speakers

2012-2013 School Year (August '12 thru July '13)

  • Keith Jerome Jones, Freshman Administrator at Blue Valley NW High School
  • Calvin Taylor, Community Activist 
  • Mark P. Gaines-Magee, Evangelist at the Roswell Church of Christ

2011-2012 School Year (August '11 thru July '12)


2010-2011 School Year (August '10 thru July '11)

  • Don Caldwell, CEO of Purpose Productions, Inc., Board VP of Renewed Reflections, Inc.
  • Derrick Estelle, CEO/President of Derrick Estelle Youth Ministry
  • Rich Piper, Director of Workforce Development, KCKCC Technical Education Center
  • Timothy L. Dupree, P.A., Founder of the Law Office of Timothy Dupree, P.A.
  • Changing Methods, Gospel Rap Music Ministry
  • Mike B. Rollen, Producer, Editor & Director, Kansas City Murder Factory Act 1
  • Louis Moten, Consultant/Trainer Missouri Youth Services Institute
  • Rev. Erodney Perry, Pastor/New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church
  • John Stafford II, Director of Choral Music, Kansas City Kansas Community College
  • John Daniels, Jr., Entrepreneur
  • Rev. Thomas Lindon, Jr., Pastor/Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

2009-2010 School Year (August '09 thru July '10)

  • Pastor Kenneth Walker, Motivational Speaker, Pastor, and Political Consultant
  • Kenneth Wilson, Trails Recreation Community Center Event Coordinator
  • Joseph Snorgrass Ph.D, Asst. Professoro of Communication at Avila University
  • Jason Rozelle, Diversity Fellow at Johnson County Community College
  • David J. Jackson, Certified Financial Planner/Financial Adviser, KCKCC Business Advisory Board Member
  • Ernest Campbell, General Manager of Salon Ambiance & Boutique
  • Pastor Vernon DeBose, Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church
  • Jonathan Daniels, Senior Patrolman Kansas City, Kansas Police Department

2008-2009 School Year (August '08 thru July '09)

  • Rev. Royal Scott Jr., Pastor of Walnut Boulevard Baptist Church
  • John Hudson II, CEO, Focus Drive LLC and Author of Best Seller "Ignored and Ignited"
  • Lavert Murray, Director of Department Unified Government of WYCO, KCK
  • David Green, Director of The Roswell Addiction and Incaceration Rehab Initiative
  • Alvin Brooks, Director and CEO Ad Hoc Group Against Crime
  • Donald Lang, Ph.D, Founder/CEO Pinnacle Counseling and Educational Consulting Services
  • Mark P. Gaines-Magee, Evangelist of Roswell Church of Christ
  • Shawn Derritt, KCKCC Counselor
  • Darron Story, Owner and Executive Producer Intrepid Entertainment/Host of KC After Hours
  • Ernest Hartzog, Ph.D, Consultant Education and Community/Organization Development

2007-2008 School Year (March '08 thru July '08)

  • Boyce Watkins, Ph.D, ("The Peoples Scholar")
  • Jim Nunnelly, KPRS 103.3FM, Generation Rap, and Retired Public Administrator
  • Tyrone J. Flowers, JD, Founder and CEO of Higher M-PACT

(updated in November of 2012)