About

Dr. G. has dedicated his professional and personal work to mentoring and developing minoritized students within schools and the juvenile systems. He has also developed several programs for marginalized students, including mentoring and first-generation programs. Dr. G.  has co-authored several articles and book chapters and is currently authoring “Talking to Children and Teens About Race and Racism.”

In addition, he has provided training and workshops for educators at the local, state, national and international levels on many topics, including race and racism, multiculturalism, Black male achievement, positive parenting, post-secondary options, social-emotional learning, and social justice, activism and crisis response.

Dr. G.  has been a keynote speaker at many conferences, organizations, schools, and workshops and has a special gift of motivating and evoking a spirit of change in his audience. His research interest includes diversity within the school counseling profession, Black male success in the counseling profession, racial justice and equity. He has been recognized as Gwinnett County School counselor of the year, semifinalist Georgia School Counselor of the year, Advocacy Award for New Jersey Department of Juvenile Justice, New Jersey Douglas Boroughs Caring Award and many more.

His core principles as a counselor have been leadership, activism and mentorship. He believes that every counselor’s ultimate goal is to bridge ALL students to get over the raging waters of life to a place of self-harmony and self-actualization because every child has the potential to be great!