Mr. Samuel Adewumi, Founder and President of Creative Achievement Success (CAS Prep), holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a Masters Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia. A product of the New York City public school system he went to the prestigious Brooklyn Technical High School where he graduated with honors and eventually returned as a teacher for 13 years and head football coach for 4 years. After spending several years in corporate America and as an entrepreneur, Mr. Adewumi was led towards the teaching profession and became a teacher in 2001. Here he discovered his love of educating and sharing his life experiences with children through the mediums of math, engineering and computer science. Mr. Adewumi founded CAS Prep as a means of providing quality SHSAT test prep services to underserved students in the Bedford Stuyvesant community. Since its inception in 2013, CAS Prep has grown beyond just providing SHSAT test prep services but also supports students from third grade through high school through its various programs. CAS Prep students currently come from all areas of Brooklyn and across New York City. Through its enrichment and SHSAT prep programs, CAS Prep has been responsible for sending students to the Specialized High Schools (SHS) each year of its operation and even more importantly has helped all of its student increase their confidence, desire and determination to succeed academically and in life. CAS Prep students who do not enroll in a SHS still continue on to have great high school careers and end up at the same top colleges and universities across the country as their SHS counterparts. CAS Prep alumni are in great high schools and colleges across the country or are gainfully employed and are pursuing their dreams. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, CAS Prep has pivoted its services online and is effectively using this platform to successfully educationally enrich the children it services. CAS Prep has also expanded its services to include SAT prep, and provides free virtual math instruction on a weekly basis to the students of NYC.

In addition to his leadership of CAS Prep, Mr. Adewumi is an advocate for the need to improve the education offered our children and also the need to support supplementary education for communities of color. He has written numerous op-eds on education for the Amsterdam News and other media and has presented at conferences and workshops. Mr. Adewumi believes that CAS Prep is a model that illustrates the possibilities of what can occur when dedicated adults of a community decide to bond together and support their children academically. His desire is to continue to provide more services to more children of our community and to inspire others to provide this experience to the so many gifted and talented children of NYC. 

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Rev. Dr. Alfonso Wyatt retired as vice president of the Fund for the City of New York after serving over two decades. He is founder of Strategic Destiny: Designing Futures Through Faith and Facts. Strategic Destiny seeks to find common language and opportunities for collaboration between socially engaged practitioners motivated by faith and secular practitioners motivated by evidence-based learning. Alfonso Wyatt is a youth developer, sought after public speaker, educator, organizational development consultant, executive coach and public theologian. He brings a relevant message of hope, empowerment and perseverance to sacred and secular communities locally and around the country. He was a high school teacher and leader of the early alternative school/humanistic education movement in NYC. He serves as an advisor and consultant to government, colleges, civic groups, community-based organizations, public and charter schools, education intermediaries, foundations and the broader faith community.

Dr. Wyatt attended Howard University, Columbia Teachers College (course work), The Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy, Columbia Business School Institute for Nonprofit Management and New York Theological Seminary. He serves on Boards of organizations that promote a progressive social agenda through programs helping brothers and sisters of all ages, in and out of the criminal justice system. He is a founding Board member of The Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy and past Chair of The 21st Century Foundation now Powered By the Tides Foundation. He also serves as a Board Member for The Osborne Association. He is an ordained Elder on the staff of The Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York.

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Babajay Dr. Onaje Jua-Osondu Abdul Muid, DSW, MSW, CADC, LMHC Shafiyat is a community healer. Dr. Muid has been a student of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan since the age of 19, dating back to 1971. His thirty five-year history as a transformative social worker has been characterized by deconstructing societal concepts, paradigms, structures, policies, programs and practices within human rights frameworks. Moreover, his life mission is healing people of African descent through social wellness paradigms and progressive social movements, especially, the decolonization and reparations movements. He is the President of Whm Msw Healing Well Inc., a nonprofit that holds his healing and community building practices. WHM MSW* Healing Well Inc.‘s mission is to provide social and cultural recovery through the restoration of MAAT for oppressed families and communities. He currently serves as the Fatherhood Coordinator for The Foundation for Delaware County, which has launched his career as a male doulos (masculine for doula.) His appointments include the UN NGO representative for the International Human Rights Association for American Minorities, chair of the National Relations Committee for the National Association of Black Social Workers, male co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) Health Commission and the Be Strong Families National Parent Café Leader Team. He is a fellow for the New York Academy of Medicine and the Therapeutic Spiral International. He holds a doctorate and master’s degree in social work, a license in mental health counseling, credentials in substance abuse, family development counseling and psychodrama. His current pursuits are to fully understand and integrate social well-being, social ecology and social movement into his life’s work as the rehabilitation aspect of reparations. He is married to Dr. Fatima Hafiz, they live in Lansdowne, PA, yet contribute to the uplift of Chester, PA, as they attend to the social develop of their blended families as proud grandparents* WHM MSW (pronounced Weheme Mesu) is a Kemet (Egyptian) word meaning “rebirth” and also a national cultural recovery program to establish Maat (order, balance and harmony). The goal of which is social well-being.

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Martine Lissa Malivers is a pediatric home health nurse, research nurse and a child sexual abuse prevention specialist. She is a survivor of child sexual abuse and is passionate about stopping what happened to her in her youth from happening to other children.

She founded Touch: The Rebellion, Inc. (Touch) in 2011 in order to bring awareness of the prevalence of child sexual abuse in all races, cultures, classes, religions and communities as well as to create fun, engaging and age-appropriate programming that teaches predatory prevention to the community and empowers the youth. Touch encourages discussion that dispels myths, clears up confusion and breaks a societal taboo that has long posed a detriment to our children's well-being. They use a grassroots approach to reach the public directly and provide them with resources such as workshops and free parent packs filled with educational material on how to fight child sexual abuse and make its prevention a part of every child's daily life. Martine believes that the education and active prevention of child sexual abuse is a community responsibility and when fulfilled helps to create safer environments for the world's children. 

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Brandon Jamal Smith, A.K.A. “Rev. B.” entered this life stream under the astrological sign of Libra with a life path to illuminate and help others see the light. 

He is the son of a Pastor, was born in Yeadon, PA and grew up in Bermuda. He began his formal music training at 4 years old. He sensed a calling to preach at 6 years old. Brandon started playing the organ and piano in church at 13 years old. Also, around this time, Brandon noticed that he had the ability to ‘know’ what was going on with different people and would share prophetic messages. Brandon also can recall some of his earliest dreams at four years old were glimpses into the future of the energy healing modality that he would become trained in.

​While living in Brooklyn, Brandon was led to an Energy Medicine group known as The Noble Touch that would ultimately open his eyes to the larger picture of the universe.

Under the tutelage of Jeffrey Vincent Noble, Brandon has completed certifications in: 

• Basic Pranic Healing- March 2016
• Advanced Pranic Healing- April 2017
• Essential Oils for Pain Management- April 2018 
• Pranic Psychotherapy October 2018
• Licensed and Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner- Aug 2019
• Pranic Crystal Healing- March 2023
• Cellular Healing- May 2023
• Generational Healing- May 2023
• Pranic Body Sculpting and Facelift- 2023

He also completed Energy Healing with Master Del Pe of BE Life Sciences.

• BE Well Sciences Basic course- May 2021

​In 2017, Brandon met world-renown Astro-numerologist, Brother Lloyd Strayhorn. After getting a reading from, him he was determined to learn more. As a result of his guidance and wisdom, in August of 2020, Brandon published his first book on numerology, "Namaste 2 Numbers: Seeing God Through Numbers".

In 2019, He was Ordained at the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Brooklyn, NY. under the leadership of Dr. Johnny Ray Youngblood where he is affectionately known as Rev. B.

It's Brandon's firm belief that everyone has the God given right to unlock their potential and B-Well!