Having healed from and overcome early childhood molestation, a severe stutter, post-traumatic stress disorder, Standardized American Selective Retardation™, peer pressure, bullying, educational tracking, mass media criminalization, workplace traumas, wrongful termination, blackballing, 
due process of law, and collusion, similar to thousands if not millions of males, I am The Blue-Collar Scholar, & The Undaunted Black Male™ a published author; public speaker; post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and persons with perceived disabilities advocate; Distinguished Alumni with a classroom dedicated to and named after me and my mother; and multi-state urban planner with twenty (20) years’ experience, currently living in Central Maryland. I was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1963.