Shawn DoveShawn Dove has more than three decades of cross-sector leadership in youth development, community-building, philanthropy, arts education, leadership development, and media literacy. He is the founder of the Corporation for Black MaleAchievement. This consulting and publishing firm produces community-building engagements and multi-media stories of loving, learning, and leading by and for Black men and boys. From 2008 to 2021, Dove led the Campaign for Black Male Achievement, a national intermediary membership organization committed to ensuring the growth, impact and sustainability of leaders and organizations committed to improving the life outcomes for Black men and boys. He launched CBMA in 2008 at the Open Society Foundations, spinning off into an independent entity in 2015. Under Dove's leadership, CBMA leveraged more than $212 million in national and local funds to help catalyze a movement, connecting thousands of leaders and organizations working with and on behalf of Black men and boys. During his career journey, he has served in leadership roles with the Harlem Children's Zone; The DOME Project; First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, NJ; the National Guild for Community Schools of the Arts; and MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership. Shawn lives in New Jersey with his wife Desere and their four children, Nia, Maya, Cameron, and Caleb. Read More Read Less