Malik Wade served 14 years in prison. While incarcerated he prepared himself to emerge as a law-abiding, contributing citizen. With sponsorship from Stanford and Berkeley, he now leads a successful nonprofit.
Mini Bio:
Malik Wade is a mentor, author, and entrepreneur from San Francisco, CA. He is the Executive Director of Scholastic Interest Group mentoring program. He speaks and writes about his experiences as a youth advocate, being an FBI fugitive for seven years and how he transformed his life and overcame serving a fourteen-year federal prison sentence. He is also the author of the book Pressure: From FBI Fugitive to Freedom. He can be reached at [email protected]. His website address is Malikwade.info.com.
Short Bio:
Malik Wade is a mentor, author and entrepreneur from San Francisco, CA. He is the Executive Director of Scholastic Interest Group mentoring program. He speaks and writes about his experiences as a youth advocate, being an FBI fugitive for seven years and how he transformed his life and overcame serving a fourteen-year federal prison sentence. He is the Author of Pressure: From FBI Fugitive to Freedom and is a graduate from Stanford Law School’s Project ReMADE entrepreneurship program. Mr. Wade has been a featured speaker at Cal Berkeley and San Francisco State. He can be reached at [email protected]. His website address is Malikwade.info.com
Medium Bio:
Malik Wade is a mentor, author, and entrepreneur from San Francisco, CA. He is the Executive Director of Scholastic Interest Group mentoring program. He speaks and writes about his experiences as a youth advocate, being an FBI fugitive for seven years and how he transformed his life and overcame serving a fourteen-year federal prison sentence. He is the author of the book Pressure: From FBI Fugitive to Freedom and is a graduate from Stanford Law School’s Project ReMADE entrepreneurship program. Mr. Wade has been a featured speaker at Cal Berkeley and San Francisco State. He is a health enthusiast and loves to travel to places like Ghana, Africa and Vancouver British Columbia.
Long Bio:
Malik Wade is a mentor, author and entrepreneur from San Francisco, CA. He is the Executive Director of Scholastic Interest Group mentoring program. He speaks and writes about his experiences as a youth advocate, being an FBI fugitive for seven years and how he transformed his life and overcame serving a fourteen-year federal prison sentence. He is the author of the book Pressure: From FBI Fugitive to Freedom and is a graduate from Stanford Law School’s Project ReMADE entrepreneurship program. Mr. Wade has been a featured speaker at Cal Berkeley and San Francisco State and several other colleges. He is a health enthusiast and loves to travel to places like Ghana, Africa and Vancouver British Columbia.
He is a regular speaker at Juvenile Halls, Youth Guidance Centers and high schools throughout the state of California and is a diligent community advocate. In 2006 he was honored by California State Senator Leland Yee for exemplary community service.
Mr. Wades guilty pleasure is having a hot fudge banana split at least once every week. He is a good athlete and participated on a state championship basketball team at Jefferson High School in Daly City in 1988. To this day he is in an avid high school basketball fan.
Mr. Wade’s primary passion is mentoring at risk youth. The highlight of his of mentoring career happened in March of 2017 when he chaperoned 14 kids from underprivileged communities in San Francisco to Ghana Africa. In addition, the following month in April he took 15 different kids on all expenses paid college tour to visit five major universities in Southern California.
Mr. Wade is a very spiritual person and meditates several times per day. Immediately starting his prayer/mediation session at 5:00am when he wakes. Friends and family sometimes warmly refer to him as “Mr. discipline” due to his focused and disciplined nature. Mr. Wade only eats one meal per day as part of a spiritual practice and has never experimented with substances foreign to the body or ingested any alcoholic beverages. Aside from being a writer he is an avid reader and loves to read the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper every day.
Mr. Wade has written articles for online magazine OZY media and has been featured in the Silicon Beat newspaper. Mr. Wade lists as clients The Bayview YMCA in San Francisco, Ca and the San Francisco Juvenile probation Dept. Mr. Wade is Married with one Daughter and lives in his hometown of San Francisco, Ca. You can contact Mr. Wade at [email protected] or go to his Website at malikwade.info.
Speaker Introduction:
My name is (name of person doing introduction). I would like to introduce our speaker for today. He is a mentor, author, and entrepreneur from San Francisco, Ca. He is the founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit organization Scholastic Interest Group mentoring program and the CEO of M. Wade Ventures. He is a health enthusiast who works out seven days a week and likes to travel to places like Ghana, Africa.
Today our speaker is here to speak about (name topic). He speaks and writes extensively on (name the topic). He is one the preeminent specialists in this area (name topic) and is the author of the acclaimed book Pressure: From FBI Fugitive to Freedom. His speaking, writing career and teachings lean heavily on his unique background of being a FBI Fugitive for seven years, subsequently serving a fourteen-year sentence in federal prison and how he eventually redeemed himself and enrolled in Stanford Law School’s Project ReMADE entrepreneurship program and starting speaking at major Universities such as Cal Berkeley and San Francisco State. He also writes and talks about how he became a mentor and advocate for at risk youth in the community.
Our speaker has a wide range of knowledge (name topic) and will inform and enlighten you today on this very serious topic. As this topic is very important to us all because we all (for example are tired of the violence in our communities) He is a very interesting person with some unique perspectives and we are in for a treat today. Please help me in welcoming Mr. Malik Wade to the stage.
5 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Me
1. I eat at least one hot fudge sundae every week.
2. I have never even tasted coffee
3. I have been the height of 6’2” since I was thirteen years old. I never grew another inch
