Dr. Grant is President and CEO of Mindful Training Solutions LLC, providing nationwide training and consultation services for universities, government entities and non-profit organizations. Dr. Grant also currently serves as the director of Pepperdine University’s Urban Fellowship Program and as adjunct professor of psychology in their Graduate School of Education and Psychology. Dr Grant previously served as a psychologist with Los Angeles County foster care youth as the county’s Department of Mental Health’s Child Welfare administrator for the countywide Intensive Treatment Foster Care program. Dr. Grant began providing direct clinical services to foster care youth and their families in the South Los Angeles, Compton and Lynwood areas after serving as Site Coordinator for a CalWORKS Homeless program in El Monte, CA in 2008. Dr. Grant holds a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Hampton University and a Doctorate of Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. As a former public school teacher, Dr. Grant maintains his passion for academia by teaching courses at several local universities. Dr. Grant’s primary
interests focus on the risk factors associated with multi-systemic marginalization of Black and Latino Americans while increasing awareness on mental health issues and disparities impacting the most vulnerable citizens of our country independent of ethnicity.

During our conversation, Dr. Grant talks about:

– Some of his background growing up on the east coast of America
– How he originally wanted to become a microbiologist and what do they do
– What his life like growing up in a small housing project as a son of divorced parents in Buffalo, New York
– How it was going to a HBCU (Historical Black College)
– When the turn happened for him to get into psychology
– What Mindful Training Solutions does
– The background his article The Zimmerman Verdict: My Black Son’s Dispensability, which he wrote before George Zimmerman was found innocent in the murder of Trayvon Martin
– His take about the Trayvon Martin incident and the George Zimmerman trial
– Why did he decide to publish the article before the verdict
– His perceptions of today’s Black man
– An interesting conversation about being brown with his four year old son
– The dialogue that has resulted because of his article
– Why does he feel that there are not more discussions about white privilege
– What message has been set to Black men as a result of the George Zimmerman verdict?
– His thoughts about the Trayvon Martin incident and the George Zimmerman verdict
– Does he feel that there should be another trial? Does he want to see George Zimmerman in court again?
– What do these groups need to do post Zimmerman verdict: White America? Black America? Black men?

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