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About <strong>The</strong> Author John C (Jack) Johnson III Founder & CEO Jack was educated at Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Rutgers Law School, in Camden, New Jersey. <strong>In</strong> 1999, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia to pursue greater opportunities to provide Advocacy and Preventive Programmatic services for atrisk/ at-promise young persons, their families, and <strong>Justice</strong> Professionals embedded in the <strong>Juvenile</strong> <strong>Justice</strong> process in order to help facilitate its transcendence into the 21 st Century. <strong>The</strong>re, along with a small group of community and faith-based professionals, “<strong>The</strong> Advocacy Foundation, <strong>In</strong>c." was conceived and developed over roughly a thirteen year period, originally chartered as a <strong>Juvenile</strong> Delinquency Prevention and Educational Support Services organization consisting of Mentoring, Tutoring, Counseling, Character Development, Community Change Management, Practitioner Re-Education & Training, and a host of related components. <strong>The</strong> Foundation’s Overarching Mission is “To help <strong>In</strong>dividuals, Organizations, & Communities Achieve <strong>The</strong>ir Full Potential”, by implementing a wide array of evidence-based proactive multi-disciplinary "Restorative & Transformative <strong>Justice</strong>" programs & projects currently throughout the northeast, southeast, and western international-waters regions, providing prevention and support services to at-risk/ at-promise youth, to young adults, to their families, and to Social Service, <strong>Justice</strong> and Mental Health professionals” everywhere. <strong>The</strong> Foundation has since relocated its headquarters to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and been expanded to include a three-tier mission. <strong>In</strong> addition to his work with the Foundation, Jack also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law & Business at National-Louis University of Atlanta (where he taught Political Science, Business & Legal Ethics, Labor & Employment Relations, and Critical Thinking courses to undergraduate and graduate level students). Jack has also served as Board President for a host of wellestablished and up & coming nonprofit organizations throughout the region, including “Visions Unlimited Community Development <strong>System</strong>s, <strong>In</strong>c.”, a multi-million dollar, award-winning, Violence Prevention and Gang <strong>In</strong>tervention Social Service organization in Atlanta, as well as Vice-Chair of the Georgia/ Metropolitan Atlanta Violence Prevention Partnership, a state-wide 300 organizational member, violence prevention group led by the Morehouse School of Medicine, Emory University and <strong>The</strong> Original, Atlanta-Based, Martin Luther King Center. Attorney Johnson’s prior accomplishments include a wide-array of Professional Legal practice areas, including Private Firm, Corporate and Government postings, just about all of which yielded significant professional awards & accolades, the history and chronology of which are available for review online. Throughout his career, Jack has served a wide variety of for-profit corporations, law firms, and nonprofit organizations as Board Chairman, Secretary, Associate, and General Counsel since 1990. www.<strong>The</strong>AdvocacyFoundation.org Clayton County <strong>Youth</strong> Services Partnership, <strong>In</strong>c. – Chair; Georgia Violence Prevention Partnership, <strong>In</strong>c – Vice Chair; Fayette County NAACP - Legal Redress Committee Chairman; Clayton County Fatherhood <strong>In</strong>itiative Partnership – Principal <strong>In</strong>vestigator; Morehouse School of Medicine School of Community Health Feasibility Study - Steering Committee; Atlanta Violence Prevention Capacity Building Project – Project Partner; Clayton County Minister’s Conference, President 2006-2007; Liberty <strong>In</strong> Life Ministries, <strong>In</strong>c. – Board Secretary; Young Adults Talk, <strong>In</strong>c. – Board of Directors; ROYAL, <strong>In</strong>c - Board of Directors; Temple University Alumni Association; Rutgers Law School Alumni Association; Sertoma <strong>In</strong>ternational; Our Common Welfare Board of Directors – President)2003-2005; River’s Edge Elementary School PTA (Co-President); Summerhill Community Ministries; Outstanding Young Men of America; Employee of the Year; Academic All-<strong>American</strong> - Basketball; Church Trustee. Page 156 of 158
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