Streetboy to Scholar

Before the Ph.D. from UConn, before the Fordham Law degree, before radio and television studios and the practice in counseling psychology, there was a Jamaican streetboy running afoul with the law — who was also committed to government Boys’ Homes, then jailed three times over. Dr. Ragashanti delivers the keynote only he can deliver: the unvarnished, often hilarious, anthropologically and clinically precise story of how a young man with every statistical reason to fail, ended up with four degrees, a global platform, and a life he chose on purpose. It is an unique and inspirational transformation speech — a motivational keynote with actual data, actual theory, and actual scars.