WHO IS ARKEE HODGES???

BIO, ARKEE HODGES, BAF PRESIDENT

 

Arkee Hodges is a visionary leader, educator and successful real estate investor. He is the Founder and President of the Black Achievement Fund, Founder and President of Pyramid Real Estate Development LLC and Founder of Education for Life Academy, an education company that offers the pioneering Standing on the Shoulders of Giants curriculum, as well as lectures and consultation on African history that begins and centers on the origins of humanity in Africa over 300,000 years ago - not slavery. 

 

Prior to these positions, Mr. Hodges served as a chief Development Officer for several New York City nonprofit organizations including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem; Echoing Green, the premier seed-funder for Social Entrepreneurs, and the Beginning with Children Foundation, which launched the first public charter school in New York City in the historically Black community of Bedford-Stuyverson. Mr. Hodges then served as the inaugural Director of the African American Male Initiative (AAMI), a joint venture between the Children's Aid Society and Columbia Teachers College, with the goal of providing five key interventions to Harlem male students from kindergarten to high school that would help them successfully graduate high school and college.

 

After serving as Director of the AMMI, Mr. Hodges served as a professor in the African American Studies Departments at John Jay College for Criminal Justice in Manhattan, and New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn where he taught courses in Race and Ethnicity in America, the African American Experience, and the Sociology of Urban Poverty. 

 

Mr. Hodges received his Bachelor’s degree in African-American Studies and History from the University of Virginia and his Master’s degree in Africana Studies from Cornell University.