Donald Garner a native of Houston, Texas by way of Ocala, Florida serves as the Co-Ministry Leader of the 20s and 30s Ministry.
Donald is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Clark & Garner, LLC- a comprehensive educational consultant firm that develops education programming and curriculum for schools, nonprofits and corporations as well as provide staffing development for public schools in the area of teacher recruitment and retention.
Donald has over a decade of education policy and program experience serving as a Teacher Recruitment Manager with the New York City Department of Education. In this capacity, he recruited traditionally certified candidates to teach in NYC public schools and assisted with staffing South Bronx public schools. For close to five years, he served as an Educational Consultant with the Florida Department of Education's Office of Dropout Prevention. In this role, he provided strategic planning to low-performing schools in South Florida and co-developed a Dropout Prevention Taskforce that influenced policy and program recommendations related to student retention.
He is a PhD candidate and Adjunct Professor in Social Work at Fordham University. His primary research interests deal with how former prisoners rebuild family relationships when returning home from prison and the impact of parental incarceration on child development outcomes. Additionally, he is currently seeking a Master's of Divinity at Yale Divinity School as well with interests in the role of spirituality formation during adolescent development, the current and future of Black Church and millennial engagement & leadership in Black Church denominations. Donald also holds Master’s Degrees in Public Administration (MPA) and Social Work (MSW) from Florida State University.
Garner is a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated through the Iota Delta Chapter at Florida State University. He is currently on the Board of Young Life-Southeast Queens, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith. For nearly five years, he held junior board memberships with the Children of Promise, NYC, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that serves children of incarcerated parents and Pentorship which designs customized products and services to facilitate quality learning experiences for returning citizens to compete in current labor markets. He also holds membership with the Apollo Young Patrons.
Donald enjoys reading, writing, running, mentoring, spending time with family and friends, and singing.
