30 Leaders Of The Future

Ebony, Nov, 1999 by Lynn Norment

RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK, 30, New York City, assistant pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, where he also is assistant minister for youth; doctoral candidate (May 2000), Union Theological Seminary; recipient, Union Seminary's William H. Hudnut Preaching Award (1993), the Benjamin E. Mays Fellowship for Ministry from the Fund for Theological Education, and the Thomas and Jeanetta Kilgore Theological Scholarship Award; authored Educating Teens for Positive Peer Intervention (1989), which stills serves as Georgia's official curriculum guide for teen programs aimed at reducing teen pregnancy.

JASPM WARWOM & KHARY LAZARRE-WHITE, both 26, New York City, co-founders and co-directors, The Brotherhood/Sister sol, a community youth services and development organization headquartered at Columbia University, with eight chapters in the New York City area. Warwin also is a trustee with the New York Foundation; board member, Educators for Social Responsibility; former board member, National Urban League Education and Career Development Advisory Board; founder, United Youth Network ('90); recipient, Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messenger's "Torchbearer Award" ('96); and recipient, Echoing Green Foundation grant. Lazarre-White also is a member of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Council of the Correctional Association of New York; a former youth counselor at John Hope Settlement Center; editor of The Brotherhood Speaks, a collection of youth writings (1997); at Brown University, co-president of Organization of United African Peoples, co-chair of the Black Student Union, leader in establishing Harambee House residential facility, and appointed by the president of Campus Ad-Hoc Committee on Police and Guns.

RENE MORROW, 30, senior administrator, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta; board member, West End Boys and Girls Clubs; board member, Fulton County Court Appointed Special Advocate Program; chair and editor, newsletter, Friendship Baptist Church, where she also is a Vacation Bible School teacher and member of the Usher Ministry and Ruth Cell Mission Ministry; selected to participate in United Way Volunteer Involvement Program (1998).

ADRION J. HOWELL, 29, Washington, D.C., African Development Fellow, Phelps Stokes Fund; recently studied at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and was international trade investment summer law clerk, Miller, Gruss, Katz & Trauh, South Africa; Congressional Fellow, House Ways and Means Committee (1997); former intern, Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder; thunder and CEO, Entertainment Urban Alliance; Merit Scholar Fellow and editor-in-chief, Banister Newspaper, Howard Univ. Law School.

CHRISTAL M. JACKSON, 25, Houston, Texas, founder and executive director, Sisters With Wings, a nonprofit organization serving women and children; former intern with the Children's Defense Fund; ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; format youth minister at Big Bethel A.M.E. Church in Atlanta; public policy graduate student at Georgetown University; program board member, Mentor's Inc.