Dual
Image
Consultants’
primary
mission
is
improving
urban
education
in
order
for
urban
children
and
youth
to
become
responsible
citizens.
The
name
grows
out
of
the
belief
that
many
urban
students
need
two
images
in
order
to
be
successful:
a
European-American
one
in
order
to
gain
some
measure
of
financial
independence
and
a
racial-cultural
image
in
order
to
achieve
spiritual
fulfillment
and
a
holistic
self-concept.
Dual
Image
Consultants
strives
to
achieve
this
mission
through
the
sale
of
Teaching
in
Urban
America:
A
Formula
for
change;
consulting;
speeches,
staff
development
presentations,
and
lectures;
the
sale
of I
Love
Baltimore
tee
shirts
to
promote
civic
pride
for
people
living
in
Baltimore
and
for
those
visiting
the
city;
and
the
sale
of
art
works,
crafts
and
ceramics.
Dr.
Walter
A.
Gill
-
The
Urban
Professor
Walter A. Gill – The Urban Professor
Walter Gill is a teacher, author, artist, actor and former university professor. He attended public schools in Jefferson City, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. He was the first African American to graduate from prestigious Baltimore City College High School, the country’s third oldest high school. Gill graduated from Morgan State College (now University) in Baltimore and acquired his master and Ph.D. degrees in educational communications from Syracuse University (NY). It has been estimated that Dr. Gill has touched the lives of over 16,000 students, in K-12, undergraduates and in graduate school.
Dr. Gill was a university professor or administrator at Bowie State College (MD), Morgan State University (MD) and the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he was recommended for tenure before moving back to Baltimore in 1991. His other books were A Common Sense Guide to Non-traditional Urban Education (1997) and Issues in African American Education (1991).
As a youth advocate Dr. Gill has been employed as: art and social studies teacher, counselor for at-risk and delinquent males, director of a boys club, a summer project for inner-city African American middle school males, and as a social worker in foster care. As an artist he has been engaged in painting, clothes design, ceramics, and theatre performance which garnished two best actor awards.
As a teacher with youth Dr. Gill has excelled, especially with hard-to-reach, challenged and delinquent males as documented by several media program segments. Many of his classroom techniques are documented: “America-America” produced by Idea Television for Brazilian television; Baltimore Fox 45’s Cover Story and Maryland Public Television’s “Focus on the Arts.” The Sun featured a cover story, “Respectful approach to toughest students,” in January 2000.
Walter Gill is also known as Wali Hakeem –wise friend. Dr. Gill is available for speaking engagements, classroom lectures and staff development presentations. He may be reached at Dual Image Consultants, 410-889-9100 or urbanprofessor@aol.com
