This six-person review board, representing each of the five focus areas of the Campaign (Education, Employment & Wealth, Fatherhood, Health, and Justice, Rights & Responsibility), regularly reviews and rates uploaded content and promotes the very best of the best for the national spotlight. Using the judging criteria for uploaded content, the roundtable will comment and rate on posted materials in their blogs.
2025 BMB Roundtable
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George L. Garrow, Jr., Esq.
Executive Director
Concerned Black Men - National Organization
Mr. Garrow has been associated with Concerned Black Men (CBM) for more than two decades, beginning in 1982 when he became a co-founding member of the Washington, DC chapter. Mr. Garrow and other committed members of the National Organization have assisted African American men in 29 U. S. cities to begin CBM chapters. Men in these communities now mentor, tutor and provide various enrichment programs to thousands of children of all ages. Under his leadership, the National Organization has developed “best practice” programs --- sustainable, high quality school-based youth initiatives that can be reproduced by CBM local chapters and other community based organizations. After-school tutoring and teen pregnancy programs, as well as parent literacy and self improvement projects, are a few of the model efforts created during Mr. Garrow’s leadership. He has been working with the 2025 Campaign since 2006.
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Loren Harris
Thinking Man Consulting
132 Jane Street
Englewood, NJ 7631
Phone: 201-951-9582
loren @ thinkingmanconsulting.com
Loren Harris is the founder of Thinking Man Consulting, which provides premium consulting services to improve the effectiveness and impact of philanthropic and social interventions. Mr. Harris recently completed his tenure with the Ford Foundation as the Program Officer responsible the Ford Foundation’s Youth funding in the United States. While at Ford Mr. Harris was the creative visionary behind: the book, Be A Father to Your Child, the writing of the Ford Foundation's two-edition report series on America's masculinity crisis, Why We Can't Wait and Momentum, the 2025 Campaign's website , the launch of The National Black Programming Consortium's Masculinity Project. A primary interest of his grantmaking at Ford was advancing strategies to reduce racially disparate youth outcomes. Mr. Harris also works in partnership with organizations responding to the human development needs of adolescent males, particularly young men of color. Prior to joining Ford, Mr. Harris served as Associate Program Officer for the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. During his five years with Mott Loren designed and implemented the Fathers at Work Initiative.
Fathers at Work and other Mott supported efforts were funded with the aim of reducing poverty through support for interventions that people facing multiple barriers obtain well-paying, unsubsidized employment. On several occasions Loren was presented with awards recognizing the important contribution of his grantmaking in support of fathers and families. Prior to joining the Mott Foundation Loren managed a STRIVE replication site in New York City that specialized in connecting young people to employment. Mr. Harris holds a BA in U.S. History from Queens College in New York and a Masters in Public Administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration,
Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. is Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration (SSA) and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC). At SSA, Professor Johnson teaches social welfare policy and human behavior in the social environment in the M.A. program and research methods in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs. A family research scholar, his substantive research focuses on male roles and involvement in African American families, nonresident fathers in fragile families, and the physical and psychosocial health statuses of African American males. As a research methodologist, he is interested in the use of qualitative research methods in guiding policy and practice research.
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Lynson Moore Beaulieu
Director, Programs and Strategic Leadership
The Schott Foundation for Public Education
An accomplished organizer, manager, capacity builder and expert in early childhood and K-12 public education, Lynson brings her leadership and outstanding skills and experience to The Schott Foundation. She most recently served as the Senior Program Director at the National Black Child Development Institute in Washington, DC where she also served as the Director of Site Operations for NBCDI’s SPARK DC initiative. She was responsible for the development and management of early childhood and K-12 education program-related activities, including new program development, directing and managing projects, research and literature reviews, policy development and analysis, development of policy briefs and other publications and materials. As a part of her duties, she also provided expert consultation to national organizations and states and participated in national workgroups and meetings.
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Alford Young, Jr. Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Associate Professor, School of Sociology
Director, Undergraduate Program
Mr. Young is currently pursuing research in three general areas, all of which concern the phenomenon of race or the social experiences of African Americans, and all of which employ ethnographic interview-based research methods. First, I am engaged in a series of projects on urban-based, low-income African American men. I am exploring how they conceive of work opportunity and the world of work in modern society, what they argue to be notions of the ideal fatherhood, and how they conceive of appropriate mentoring for younger relatives and associates. Second, I am conducting a study of how African American scholars who research and teach about the African American experience address issues concerning the social utility of their scholarship and how that relates to their sense of mission and purpose as academics. Third, I am involved in a few small-scale studies of undergraduate and graduate educational practice as it pertains to racial and ethnic diversity in the student body and in scholarship.
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