Rev. Dr. Alfonso Wyatt
Strategic Destiny: Designing Futures Through Faith and Facts
Rev. Dr. Alfonso Wyatt retired as vice president of the Fund for the City of New York after serving over two decades serving youth development agencies. He is the founder of Strategic Destiny: Designing Futures Through Faith and Facts LLC. 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.
He has mentored young people in foster care, juvenile detention facilities, and adults in and out of prison; as well as leaders in the public and private sectors, youth-serving organizations, the faith community, foundations, government, and mentees receiving their Ph.D.
Dr. Wyatt serves as an adviser 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, The Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy, and Columbia Business School’s Institute for Nonprofit Management, and New York Theological Seminary.
Rev. Dr. Wyatt is a founding Board member of Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy and served two years as Chair of The 21st Century Foundation, now powered by Tides. He is a founding member of the Interfaith Center of New York. Dr. Wyatt is founder and advisory board member of The Institute for Transformative Mentoring (ITM) housed in the New School for Social Research where he serves as a Visiting Fellow; and The Credible Messenger Institute (CMI) at the CUNY Graduate Center. CMI and ITM address personal trauma caused by incarceration while concomitantly preparing credible messengers to work with court-adjudicated youth and young adults in the role of mentor, counselor, and advocate. He is also a Board member of the Osborne Association.
Rev. Dr. Wyatt is a published author, a public theologian, and an ordained Elder on the ministerial staff of The Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York.
