Chip is a big man with a big smile, a big heart, and a big vision for mentoring Black youth. He is responsible for more than 20, 000 young people getting into higher education and he has affected the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

Chip is finishing his PhD at Georgia State U, studying themes like gentrification in housing and career success for young people; how Boston is an educational mecca while Atlanta is an educational mecca specifically for Black people, looking at how they support their black communities in very different ways.

Chip is a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government for his expertise in housing, young people, urban studies, gentrification, voting, voter discrimination, and community organizing at the grassroots level, looking at community-based organizations and how they work with or against government agencies.