Raymond Lucas - Biography

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Update 09-01-2014 1 of 1 Raymond W. Lucas 443-621-5323 [email protected] Currently, Raymond Lucas is a Management Consultant, across a variety of business sectors. Ray serves as a Mentor to both youth and adults in his local community and across the nation. As a three term President of 100 Black Men of Maryland, Inc., Ray led program expansion for community youth during some very tough economic times. His seven year association with the IDEA Partnership through his service to 100 Black Men of America’s Education Committee, has provided Ray with the unique opportunity to work side by side with some of the best K-12 Educational Leaders in the world, developing resource materials on crucial topics like Disproportionality in Special Education, Response to Intervention (RTI,) Autism, Universal Design for Learning (UDL,) and Leading by Convening (video) A Blueprint for Authentic Engagement (document.) For over 30 years, Ray was on the cutting edge of business and technological innovation in the Information Technology sector, through an array of technical, professional and Management roles at Westinghouse Defense Electronics, Gould, Eastman Kodak and IBM. Ray has received countless awards for his work as a community leader, including several Presidents’ Volunteer awards, an Aetna Magic Touch Community Service Award, from the Magic Johnson Foundation, and the Carrying the Torch of Success Award presented by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Ray’s commitment to mentoring is well represented in a November 18, 2008 Boston Globe article, Obama Lifts Ceiling of Dreams for Black Men.” Ray was recently honored as one of the 2013 Fox 45 Baltimore’s Champions of Courage for his community work performed in the context of serving Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream. Bmorenews.com also recognized Ray with a 2013 Black Capitol Award for his support of Baltimore’s Black Businesses and Youth Entrepreneurship. Other more recent community activities include: o Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) - Mentoring o Mentoring Students for National Competition o Mentoring Students for Bad Boy Competition o Maryland Business Roundtable Achievement Counts Speakers Bureau o The African American Leadership Family sponsored by the Skinner Leadership Institute Earlier community service contributions include: o Department of Corrections Herman Tolson Boot Camp Steering Committee and Mentor o Laurel Regional Hospital Foundation Board of Directors and Ex-officio Policy Board member Finance Committee o Baltimore Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce Vice Chair o Howard County, Brown v. Board of Education Planning Commission Ray is a graduate of the Executive MBA Fellows program at Loyola University in Maryland. He is also a 2007 100 Black Men of America Leadership Development Institute Fellow and 100 Think Tank participant. A Baltimore native and graduate of the famous Frederick Douglass High School, Ray is also an avid photographer with some of his work highlighted on the Baker Artist Awards site.

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Raymond W. Lucas 443-621-5323 [email protected]

Currently, Raymond Lucas is a Management Consultant, across a variety of business sectors. Ray serves as a Mentor to both youth and adults in his local community and across the nation. As a three term President of 100 Black Men of Maryland, Inc., Ray led program expansion for community youth during some very tough economic times. His seven year association with the IDEA Partnership through his service to 100 Black Men of America’s Education Committee, has provided Ray with the unique opportunity to work side by side with some of the best K-12 Educational Leaders in the world, developing resource materials on crucial topics like

Disproportionality in Special Education, Response to Intervention (RTI,) Autism, Universal Design for Learning (UDL,) and Leading by Convening (video) – A Blueprint for Authentic Engagement (document.) For over 30 years, Ray was on the cutting edge of business and technological innovation in the Information Technology sector, through an array of technical, professional and Management roles at Westinghouse Defense Electronics, Gould, Eastman Kodak and IBM. Ray has received countless awards for his work as a community leader, including several Presidents’ Volunteer awards, an Aetna Magic Touch Community Service Award, from the Magic Johnson Foundation, and the Carrying the Torch of Success Award presented by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Ray’s commitment to mentoring is well represented in a November 18, 2008 Boston Globe article, “Obama Lifts Ceiling of Dreams for Black Men.” Ray was recently honored as one of the 2013 Fox 45 Baltimore’s Champions of Courage for his community work performed in the context of serving Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream. Bmorenews.com also recognized Ray with a 2013 Black Capitol Award for his support of Baltimore’s Black Businesses and Youth Entrepreneurship. Other more recent community activities include:

o Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) - Mentoring

o Mentoring Students for National Competition

o Mentoring Students for Bad Boy Competition

o Maryland Business Roundtable Achievement Counts Speakers Bureau

o The African American Leadership Family sponsored by the Skinner Leadership Institute

Earlier community service contributions include:

o Department of Corrections Herman Tolson Boot Camp – Steering Committee and Mentor

o Laurel Regional Hospital Foundation Board of Directors and Ex-officio Policy Board member

– Finance Committee

o Baltimore Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce – Vice Chair

o Howard County, Brown v. Board of Education Planning Commission

Ray is a graduate of the Executive MBA Fellows program at Loyola University in Maryland. He is also a 2007 100 Black Men of America Leadership Development Institute Fellow and 100 Think Tank participant. A Baltimore native and graduate of the famous Frederick Douglass High School, Ray is also an avid photographer with some of his work highlighted on the Baker Artist Awards site.