James G. White
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James G. White was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1962. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with honors, attended graduate school at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and was conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Trinity Theological Seminary.
White is a former hip hop music recording artist, producer, and musician, signed in the fall of 1990 as Ghetto Priest, he was the first hip hop artist to hold a concert in South Africa after the release of Nelson Mandela from prison.[citation needed] In the fall of 1990, Dr. White joined the national program planning team for the "Self Destruction: Stop The Violence in Hip Hop Movement" where he proposed the first touring national Hip Hop Summits to promote dialogue between the civil rights establishment and the hip hop community. He was a co-founder of NU-LITES, the National Urban League Incentives To Excel and Succeed, a model national youth leadership development program. As Ghetto Priest White served as the executive producer and host of Slave Uprisin', a weekly radio talk show and lead newspaper column for Courier Communications.
In 1994, White co-founded Faith Partners, the National Interfaith Alliance Against Substance Abuse, an initiative of the Johnson Institute Foundation, which is the featured program of the Institute's Rush Recovery Center.
In the spring of 1996, White was elected to his first four-year term on the County Board of Supervisors in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served three terms on the Board, serving at times as First Vice Chairman of the Board, Chairman of General Mitchell International Airport, the Milwaukee County Transit System, and the Milwaukee County Highway Commission. He was the only incumbent Milwaukee County Supervisor to lose his office to a challenger in the April 1, 2008 Milwaukee elections; his failure to collect enough petition signatures to appear on the election ballot may have cost him his seat. [1]
White is founder and chairman of the Encompass Project; serves on the board of directors of the Milwaukee Regional Science and Engineering Fair (MRSEF); and serves on the advisory board of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Engineering School's Office of Diversity.
In the spring of 2004, White served as the keynote speaker for the Dialogue International Interfaith Conference on World Peace in Istanbul, Turkey, and continues efforts to promote dialogue and shared global responsibility among the Abrahamic faith traditions (Christians, Muslims, and Jews).
White currently serves as the Senior Legal and Business Analyst for Lanier Law offices in Milwaukee and Washington, D.C. He serves as Chief Operations Officer for Clergy Strategic Alliances LLC, a Washington DC based social justice and human rights outreach training firm working with progressive organizations, and the historically black Christian denominations.
White also serves as Co-Chairman of the Hip Hop Congress National Advisory Board.[citation needed]
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- ^ [http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=734589 Held, Tom. "Panel stays largely unchanged: 6 veterans outpolled challengers; 9 return with no opposition," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel April 1, 2008
