Alfonso Wyatt

Rev. Dr. Alfonso Wyatt is on the staff of The Greater Allen Cathedral A.M.E. Cathedral of New York. He provides vital leadership to youth, young adults and professionals in sacred and secular communities. He retired as vice president of The Fund for the City of New York after serving over two decades. Dr. Wyatt is founder of Strategic Destiny: Designing Futures Through Faith and Facts. Strategic Destiny collaborates with practitioners motivated by faith and secular practitioners motivated by evidence-based learning. He is an advisor and consultant to government, colleges, civic groups, cbo’s, public and charter schools, foundations, and the broader faith community. Dr. Wyatt is a renowned national speaker on issues affecting men, children, youth, and families, as well as community mental, spiritual and physical health. In his role as author and public theologian, he offers a message of hope in and out of the faith community. He has mentored three generations of leaders from the public, private and faith sectors as well as men and women in and exiting prisons and jails, as well as individuals in corporate America, youth serving organizations, the faith community or receiving their Ph.D. Dr. Wyatt, is a sought after public speaker in his role as youth development practitioner, healer, mentor, role model and now elder spokesperson. He attended Howard University, Columbia Teachers College, The Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy, Columbia Institute for Nonprofit Management and New York Theological Seminary. Rev. Dr. Wyatt is a founding Board member of The Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy. He also serves on the Boards of The Interfaith Center of New York, The Correctional and Osborne Associations. He is the past Chair of The 21st Century Foundation.