Elite Team. Lean by Design.
Every Dollar Goes to Mission.
20-year tenured faculty at City Colleges of Chicago. Chemical engineer by training, asked by Rev. Jesse Jackson to solve the technology pipeline problem for Black and Brown communities. Built a Saturday STEM program from scratch, designed the Stay Safe App with teenagers navigating gun violence, placed students at Yale, Northwestern, NIH, and CBS News. Now a PhD candidate building the first empirically grounded framework for trustworthy agentic AI — and running DJMP Institute full-time while doing it.
PhD in Electrical Engineering from Howard University. 16 years at MITRE Corporation as Principal Information Systems Engineer. Now Principal AI/ML Specialist at Amazon Web Services — 8 years applying machine learning and generative AI at enterprise scale. His AWS institutional connection mirrors DJMP's own MLU partnership. His Howard University doctoral roots connect directly to DJMP's mission. He is the technical credibility signal funders need to see.
Two HBCU-connected AI practitioners — one who spent 20 years watching Black and Brown students prepared to consume technology but never build it, now building the framework to fix that architecturally; one with a Howard Ph.D., 16 years at MITRE, and 8 years at AWS — sitting at the same governance table, building AI infrastructure for the communities those institutions were founded to serve.
Howard University · Tuskegee University · Rainbow PUSH Coalition · The intellectual lineage of this work