Rodney Walker

Raised in South Side Chicago as a ward of the state from age five, Rodney Walker has become a dynamic entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, and advocate for at-risk youth. Despite homelessness and abuse, Walker founded Forever Life Productions, a media production company, while still in high school. He holds degrees from Morehouse College and Yale University, and travels both nationally and internationally, speaking at public and private schools, corporations, and conferences about the importance of education, entrepreneurship, mentoring, and corporate philanthropy for non-profit organizations supporting at-risk youth. Portions of his story have appeared on PBS’s American Graduate Day, in the documentary Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon, and in It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired and Get Going by Chelsea Clinton.