Community Service Awards

Community Service Awards

Tfive years . A year ago Thomas also mentored a summer intern for the Orators teaching him valuable skills that he can use later in his career.

He was recently promoted to Executive Director Payments Technology for J.P Morgan. Before that he was the Vice President of User Experience Designer for 7 years.

homas Lukoma has been providing web maintenance support for the Orators ’ website for close to Thomas is a proud father of two daughters and one son who are members of the New Jersey Orators Perth Amboy Chapter. He is an active member of his Cathedral International Church community as a Deacon and mentor for boys in the church.

He has a BA in Film Animation from Harvard.

currently resdes Old Bridge, NJ with his wife, Leslie and three children, Ssanyu, Neo and Endasi.

Thomas

Walter Young Jr.

Ph.D of the Plainfield Chapter initially as a parent and then volunteered to be trained to become an Assistant Coach in 2020 . He has continued to support the organization in a marketing role by writing articles on social media and for submitting articles to the local eNewspapers.

Walter Young , Jr . Ph . D has been an active member

Walter is a proud father of two college age children who are very caring and very successful individuals and are both Plainfield Chapter alumni . Walter III is studying to become a pilot and Chelsea , who was our 2022 Orator of the Year , is studying law . He always says his blessing is his wife . His professional teaching career culminated in 2021 when the " Office of the Dean of the School of Education and Public Service Leadership conferred upon me my Ph .D . and the title / designation Dr. Young" .

Walter currently resides in Plainfield, NJ with his wife, Majorie and son Walter III and Chelsea.

New Jersey Orators, Inc. thanks the following corporations and foundations for providing us grants, and for their continued support for the 2022 – 2023 Fiscal Year

New Jersey Council for the Humanities

$15,000 for Chapter Expansion & Literacy

Ohnell Foundation

$5,000 Program Costs

Fred Brotherton Foundation

$4,300 Literacy Workshops

Plainfield Foundation

$2,500 Program Costs

Plainfield Grassrooots CDC

$1,500 Program Costs

Thanks to our grantors for supporting our organization’s programs

We express our heartfelt thanks to the following Partners:

Essex County Prosecutors Office

Seton Hall University –Provost Office

Nu Xi Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

National Organization for Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE)

African American Chamber of Commerce - NJ

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

Scholastic Reading Counts

Reach Out And Read Barnes & Noble Volunteers.org

“CELEBRATING 38 YEARS: A JOURNEY TO EXCELLENCE”

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Barack Obama

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