Chief Executive Officer, Tommie Mabry Company; Former Director of Enrollment, Tougaloo College; Former Teacher at the same school he had been expelled from numerous times as a student, who overcame obstacles and his troubled past, and knows what it's like to feel disengaged in school; Author, Perspective: The Secret to Student Motivation and Success (2022), Little Tommie’s Four B’s (2019), If Tommie Can Do It, We Can Do It (2015), and A Dark Journey to a Light Future (2012)