Mason West III earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. He later earned his Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning and Community Development from Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. Currently he is pursuing his Doctoral Degree in Educational Leadership at the University of Tennessee. For fifteen years Mr. West served as an instructor and administrator. He has educated youth in Georgia, Alabama and Bermuda as an exceptional Religion and Social Studies instructor. Mr. West also served as an associate pastor at the West End Church in Atlanta Georgia and the Madison Mission Church in Madison, Alabama. Currently, Mr. West serves others in several capacities. He is the Director of Community Learning at the Randolph School in Huntsville, Alabama. He is the Director of Ministry for the Buckhead Community Fellowship Ministry in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder and CEO of the Mason West Group (MWG), a youth leadership consulting company. His company specializes in the creation of youth leadership programs. MWG’s clients have included schools, local governments, the federal government, and corporations. In 2003 Mr. West started his Talented Tenth Leadership Program. The purpose of the program is to teach youth how to influence their peers, their government and their economy. The program is a vehicle used to help youth under his tutelage become agents of social change. Youth are trained in a curriculum that exposes them to different levels of economics, civics and the rational planning process. These youth then prepare economic development plans for low-income communities and crisis intervention plans for a conflict somewhere on the globe. They travel to Washington D. C. where they present these plans to those who actually work in these fields. Mr. West’s students have presented before local government officials, officers at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Justice Department, World Bank, State Department and congressional offices. They have debated before municipal judges and celebrated legal scholars. They have become agents of social change. Mr. West is also the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer for Engage Youth Empowerment Services, a youth advocacy company based in Wolverhampton, England. This company, which engages youth on the fringes of society has become one of the premier youth services organizations in the city of Wolverhampton, England. Mr. West has helped those who have the ability, but not necessarily the opportunity to stand in prestigious places and discover that they can change the world if just given the chance.