About the Author

Devin Walker is a Human Rights and Pan-African organizer, musician, book author, professional EEO and conflict resolution consultant, and more.  Devin has been an active member of Contee AME Zion Church in Washington, DC since childhood and once served as the church's Youth and Young Adult Director.  He is the outgoing Chairperson of the Social/Political Action Committee for the Mid Atlantic II Region Lay Council.  In 1990, Devin led a protest against the church's silence around social and political issues. This was the precursor activity that inspired him to produce The Kemet Report, a monthly newsletter illuminating the social-political origins of Christianity and its relationship to today’s world.  Devin was the sole researcher, writer and editor for the Kemet Report, which at its height attracted a readership of at least 400, including subscriptions from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.  

Devin has since authored two books to resurrect the true social revolutionary nature of the church; “An Appeal to the African Church in America: Beware of False Profit$” and newly released “The Way of the Gentiles.”

Devin has traveled to Cuba, Panama, Venezuela and Puerto Rico organizing with different oppressed people, as well as working with different organized formations in Azania (South Africa), Guinea, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Ireland, El Salvador, India, and the United States.

Devin’s experiences in college reflected his passion for social justice.  He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where, in 1988 he was President of the Black Student Union and led a student sit-in as a member of the Coalition Against Injustice to protest acts of racism present on the campus.

Devin is a founding member of the Pan-African Liberation Organization (1990-2006) and among several other initiatives served as one of its lead organizers for its Cuba solidarity.  His activism in the DC Healthcare Coalition, protesting the closing of the only public hospital in the city, led to his organizing the People Before Profit Community Healthcare Project, modeled after and inspired by the Cuban Healthcare system. The mission of the project is to elevate the community as a people through education and empowerment by creating a project that will effectively address the healthcare concerns of residents within a nine (9) block radius of a majority African (African-American) community in Northeast DC, using an alternative healthcare model predicated on people not profit.

Professionally, Devin has over 16 years of experience in Equal Employment Opportunity mediation, investigation and dispute resolution. He has investigated, mediated and trained thousands of people in discrimination and harassment situations relevant to federal, state and local statues that includes over 15 government agencies and is one of the founders of the National Equal Opportunity Institute.