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Thomas Holmes

Reverend Thomas N. Holmes is a motivational speaker, educator, consultant, deejay, founder and chief executive officer of Powerful Visions LLC, an educational consulting organization specializing in evidence based whole school/student improvement, community engagement, Youth Court development and financial aid/scholarship strategies. He has over 27 years of experience in higher education from Rutgers University as an Assistant Director and Imaging Systems Administrator. In this public space, he has managed complex university projects, facilitated Pre-college programs, coordinated state-wide conferences, and provided training and professional development for a diversity of university communities, while developing core competencies in Workflow Technology, Document Imaging, and financial aid administration.

The New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJSTEP) currently employs him as the Academic Counselor at Garden State and A.C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facilities, an association of higher education institutions who provide college courses for degree attainment for individuals in custody. He is also the Director of Financial Aid, Scholarship and Technology Administration for At the Well Conferences Inc., Summer Leadership Academy at Princeton University. Rev. Holmes has also served as a board member for the Doulos Agape Group, a non-profit parent/student empowerment organization that collaborated with the Asbury Park School District and community, as a grant writer and facilitator for the “Improving the Odds for Children” project. He also developed a model for video curriculum for gifted students in the arts at Trenton Central High School and has conducted a variety of workshops and seminars in the Elizabeth and Plainfield School districts for special needs students. He is currently the secretary for the Making A Better Tomorrow Foundation, and past Coordinator and Program Facilitator for the Sigma Beta Club, both affiliated organizations of the Kappa Upsilon Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. This year he is one of the coordinators of the Mu Zeta and Gamma Kappa Chapter’s celebration of 35 years of a Blue and White legacy at Rutgers University, where he was a founding father. While serving a number of years as the alumni chapter advisor and he was a two time recipient of the prestigious Rutgers AIFC “Advisor of the Year” award.

Some of his major written works include a policy paper on Core Knowledge Curriculum, How Technology Influences Spiritual Formation within Adolescent Youth Identity and another provocative work, An Afrocentric Worldview of African-American Youth, which argued the need for rituals and cultural connections between adolescents and their African heritage. Rev. Holmes is the immediate past Associate Pastoral Leader at Beloved Community Church in Trenton, a past youth pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church where he was ordained by the Progressive National Baptist Convention that was founded by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Holmes is also the founder of the SOZO Health and Morning Glory Bereavement Support Ministries as a licensed minister at Abundant Life Family Worship Church both in New Brunswick, NJ.

Rev. Holmes holds a Bachelors Degree from Rutgers University, Rutgers College, a Masters of Divinity from New Brunswick Theological Seminary and a Masters of Public Administration from Rutgers-Newark School of Public Affairs and Administration and has accumulated an additional 42 credits towards an advanced degree in Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden Campus. He is married to an amazing woman of God, Regina, and proud father and friend to 3 wonderful adult children, Lisa, Jose, Simone and his youngest daughter Kyrah. His motto is “God is DJ, life is a dance floor, love is the rhythm and you are the music.”

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