Dereca Blackmon is a spiritual activist and a ministerial student at the Holmes Institute. She is a personal and community transformation specialist who has helped thousands of youth and adults reclaim their personal power and discover a renewed sense of possibility for their lives. Her long and winding path to the ministry has included stints in nonprofit leadership, community organizing and motivational speaking. Highlights of her achievements include raising over 3 million dollars for youth in Oakland, serving as one of the lead organizers in the national outcry against the murder of Oscar Grant by transit police, and having her work featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN and the upcoming book Learning to Liberate.
She is most proud of successfully balancing her work with raising an amazing coven of four bold and beautiful teenage girls. She is an aspiring writer and is always working on at least three persistently unfinished books on blended families, sexism in Hip Hop and the oneness of all religions.
She is most proud of successfully balancing her work with raising an amazing coven of four bold and beautiful teenage girls. She is an aspiring writer and is always working on at least three persistently unfinished books on blended families, sexism in Hip Hop and the oneness of all religions.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. ~ Howard Thurman