About
Currently, Dr. Young is serving as an Adjunct Professor and Faculty Teaching Affiliate: in the Leadership Studies Program at Andrew Young School of Leadership, and in Higher Education in Prisons (AYC-HEP). Dr. Young’s professional ministry affiliations have consisted of serving as both Dean of Theology and Religious Studies, and College Chaplain at the Arkansas Baptist College of Little Rock, Arkansas. He has served as Interim Dean at Morehouse School of Religion in Atlanta Georgia. At United Theological Seminary he led a Doctoral of Ministry Group with Dr. Alfred Thompson from Columbus, Ohio.
His Doctoral of Ministry thesis was entitled, “The Development of Outreach Ministries at an African-American Church.” He developed and implemented 4 outreach ministries: Evangelism, Narcotics Anonymous and Church-based Drug and Alcohol program, Mission room, and Prison Ministry.
His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled, “The Dream Re-Imagined: Historically Black Colleges and Universities Releasing Purpose to Prisoners (A Case Study on the Second Chance Pell Grant Program at Wiley College, Marshall Texas).” He did a qualitative study focused on the Second Chance Pell Grant program at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, and how the program made possible an academic experience that provided a purposeful, often life-changing alternative to the otherwise non-productive routine of prison life. The study employed a case study approach to examine how one Historically Black College and University, Wiley College, used the Second Chance Pell Grant program. With an unparalleled “leap of faith,” its visionary administration applied for and was awarded a grant in 2015, and with it proceeded to implement the Second Chance Pell Grant program at the College. Since the fall of 2017, the program has graduated 27 men with Associate and Bachelor degrees in three academic programs.
He has three children Jouelle, Jillian and Gerald II. One grandchild named Zora who he affectionately calls Zebee.