Leadership

Dr. John Hamilton is the Co-Founder of Cultural Capital Consulting. He also serves as the Associate Vice President, University Access & Retention at California State University, Long Beach, where he readily uses his skillset to improve opportunities for students of color in both the K-12 and college settings.  As an influencer in higher education institutions and corporations, Dr. Hamilton seeks to improve practices, inform decisions, strengthen communities, and ensure success.

A former teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District in Watts, Dr. John Hamilton knew that “impact” and “scalability” were critical to the success of equity and diversity in urban schools. Transitioning to higher education, Dr. Hamilton used “impact” and “scalability” as the Director of New Student Programs for the Academic Advancement Program at UCLA, Assistant Director and Director of the Educational Opportunity Program, and Coordinator of the Learning Resource Center at Loyola Marymount University.  He has used his expertise to teach Cultural Diversity, Multicultural Counseling and Socio-cultural Foundations courses at Pepperdine University, National University, and Occidental College.

Dr. Hamilton has presented at numerous conferences and provided workshops on equity, diversity, hip-hop, pop culture, welfare-to-work programming, foster youth, community policing, and identity-conscious strategies.  He is the author of Cinque: Rite of Passage, The Elevator is Broken, and Vainglorious: How Today’s Black Men Graduate from College.  Additionally, Dr. Hamilton has a strong desire to assist African American students to excel in and outside of the classroom. He pays particular attention to African American males, in the efforts to dispel the myths and deficit perspective attitudes within and beyond the walls of education.

Dr. Stephen Brown is the Co-Founder of Cultural Capital Consulting. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences at California Baptist University. He has taught masters-level social work courses at Azusa Pacific University and California State University Los Angeles, and undergraduate courses at Chapman University.  Dr. Brown has extensive experience in the areas of foster care and adoptions. His professional work experiences include program directorship of a Los Angeles area foster family agency, program coordination of the Family Preservation with the Pomona Unified School, and child welfare practice with the Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties Department of Children’s Services and residential treatment facilities.  In addition, he acts as consultant/ trainer for a number of agencies throughout the Los Angeles area, and the Inland Empire. He has also provided field supervision for students from the Schools of Social Work at the University of Southern California and California State University, Los Angeles.

Dr. Brown is the co-founder of the Circuit Athletics, Inc. which specializes in personal development and educational achievement using athletics as a vehicle. He is the author of College and the Black Male Athlete and a host of other publications in and around the areas of minority male achievement and the achievement gap.  He has served as a presenter/panelist at several conferences through research he conducted dealing with the issue of African American male achievement, but more specifically, student athletes and the area of retention. As a result, he has worked directly with African American and Latino males in the greater Los Angeles area through his non-profit organization called the Brother’s Incorporated where he, along with colleagues, work with these young men to assist them in everything from goal setting and closing the achievement gap, to the importance of having a Plan B.