Walter Gill is a teacher, author, artist, actor and former university professor. He attended public schools in Jefferson City, MissouriBaltimore, Maryland. He was the first African American to graduate from prestigious Baltimore City College High School, the country’s third oldest high school. He attended Morgan State College (now University), and received his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University. 

     For 22 years he was a university administrator or professor and included employment at Bowie State University (MD), Morgan State University (MD) and the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he was recommended for tenure. Before and after his time in higher education, he spent 24 years with children and youth as an art and social studies teacher, counselor for at-risk youth 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.

     For the past nine and a half years Dr. Gill has excelled with had-to-reach, challenged and delinquent males as documented by several media program segments. Many of his classroom techniques are documented: a segment on 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 newspaper also featured a cover story, “Respectful approach to toughest students,” in January 2000. It has been estimated that Dr. Gill has touched the lives of over 16,000 students, in K-12, undergraduates and in graduate school.

     He is the author of three books: Issues in African American Education (1991), A

Common Sense Guide to Non-traditional Urban Education (1997) and Teaching in Urban America: A Formula for Change (2008).

     As an artist he has been engaged in painting, clothes design, ceramics, and theatre performance which garnished two best actor awards from the Omaha Community Playhouse and Center Stage in Omaha. His original art design can be found on the “I Love Baltimore – The Harbor City” tee shirt.

     Dr. Gill’s educational beliefs are based on three philosophies: “He who teaches learns and he who learns teaches,” (African Proverb); “Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know, it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave,” (John Ruskin); and “Call education what name you please. If it fails to bring about good results for the masses, it falls short of its highest end.” (Booker T. Washington).

     Walter Gill is also known as Wali Hakeem –wise friend. Dr. Gill is available for speaking engagements, classroom lectures and staff development presentations. His latest book can be obtained at www.teachinginurbanamerica.com. He may be reached at Dual Image Consultants, 410-889-9100 or urbanprofessor@aol.com