Biography - Keene M. Walker

The young, passionate, dynamic, and masterful motivator known for his countless achievements, Keene M. Walker trains and encourages thousands through his speeches and seminars which take place at events throughout the country.

Keene inspires and empowers many with his heartfelt and triumphant life story. Much of Keene’s strength is rooted in his upbringing in Thomaston, Georgia.  Although he was born into poverty, and forced to grow up on rough streets and live in a row house that lacked even a bathtub, Keene overcame many of life’s stumbling blocks by turning them into stepping stones.  Keene shares his story and much more in his soon to be released book, Teachers, We Are Crying Out!  If You Don’t Respond, We Know the Streets Will

After several near death experiences, Keene M. Walker decided it was time to change his life, as he refused to let his past determine his future.  Instead, he chose to learn from the past, plan for the future, and make the best of the present.

In 1992, Keene graduated from Upson High School.  He then journeyed to Montgomery, Alabama to continue his education at Alabama State University.  In 1996, Keene graduated Summa Cum Laude from Alabama State, earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Science Education. 

At the age of twenty-two, he became a public school teacher for Montgomery Public Schools (MPS). Within a few short years, Keene’s innate gift for teaching received recognition when he was honored as both a Golden Apple Teacher of the Week and a Golden Apple Teacher of the Year in 2001.  Although academics were his primary focus as a teacher, Keene also managed to inspire students in the fine arts.  His talents in this area were recognized in 2001 when he was awarded the Choral Music Department’s Teacher of the Year Honor at George Washington Carver High School. 

In 2001, Keene moved from Montgomery to Atlanta, where his talent for educating and motivating continued to grow and impact others.  He was recognized as the Teacher of the Month in 2002 and STAR Teacher in 2003 at North Clayton High School in College Park, GA.  As his abilities constantly increased in recognition and esteem, Keene often found himself mentoring new teachers, and leading seminars, workshops, and lectures on goal setting, time management, positive self-concept, and leadership skills for well-known agencies and institutions.

After recognizing the high demand for his services, Keene decided to focus his skills to accomplish a greater goal.  In 2006, he founded Dare 2 Care Technologies, LLC.  Keene’s passion, which also serves as the mission of Dare 2 Care Technologies, is to elevate the educational, cultural, financial, and spiritual well-being of humanity.  It is truly Keene’s life goal to bring hope out of hopelessness, as he helps those trapped in the cycle of poverty and despair. 

In addition to his inspiring work as an educator, Keene has been featured as the Special Guest Speaker for Keith L. Brown's 20/20 Enterprises, and has spoken at conferences with other world famous speakers, including George C. Fraser, M.L. King III, Reverend Joseph Lowery, and Reverend Jesse Jackson.  Keene has often been interviewed on radio talk shows and television networks due to his unique courage and stirring passion for educating and empowering students.  He maintains alliances with organizations such as NEA, SCLC, SAEOPP, B-CAP, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

As a husband, father, teacher, counselor, and mentor, Keene remains committed to fighting for civil rights, social justice and educational equality.  He is a trailblazer that constantly motivates students, as he helps them to achieve goals of matriculating into institutions of higher education. 

Keene's message is simple, yet powerful: You can do what you want to do and be what you want to be, if you accept the fact that there are no elevators to success...everyone must take the stairs!  Keene constantly cites himself as an example of the positive and powerful impact education, motivation, and self-determination can have on one’s life.  He believes that if he can overcome such obstacles to become a success story, anyone can! 

Bulleted Points Highlight Recent Speaking Engagements

 The widely sought after Educational Consultant, Professional Speaker, Author and Community Advocate’s most recent engagements are as follows:

• 143^rd Emancipation Proclamation Celebration
• Bi-State Conference on the Savannah River Site
• Bermuda Project
•  Showcase of Excellence at Georgia Perimeter College
•  Big Sisters in Action, 3^rd Annual Pink and Black Ball
• 1^st Annual Read – A – Thon
• M.L. King Day Celebration
• SCLC National Convention in Birmingham
• Annual Education Week at Headland Heights UMC
• Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia
• DEFAC State Wide Conference
• ASCAC Annual Conference at Benedict College
• CAU Upward Bound Annual Banquet
• UYAC Teen Leadership Institute
• APEX Museum
• JFK Middle School Career Day
• North Atlanta High School Youth Motivation Day
• Candle Light Vigil: Youth Victims Who Lost Their Lives in 2005
• E.W. Oliver Elementary: Myths and Highlights of the African Diaspora
• Sydney Lanier High Leadership and Athletic Banquet

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT KEENE WALKER

"Your presentation was engaging and enlightening.  Your transparency allowed us to connect with you; your energy kept our attention, and your charge "Woke Us Up"!  I look forward to seeing families connect for substantial reasons.”

Allia L. Carter

Director of Multicultural Affairs

Georgia College and State University

"Thank you for participating in our Making Families Independent Training Institute. You did a great job, and everyone was raving about your energy, humor, and spirit while presenting during the Managing Stress Workshops."

Pattie Powers  

Community Resource Specialist

Georgia Department of Human Resources

"Thank you for participating in our Youth Motivation Day.  Your talk regarding life skills and the importance of staying in school was very informative and inspiring for our future leaders.”

Lorraine Bowen

Youth Motivation Day Coordinator

North Atlanta High School

"I am glad to be in the company of such a powerful speaker and individual.  I've never seen anyone command the attention of an audience the way you did this evening.  You literally moved the organizer of the event to tears with the power and passion you spoke with tonight.  I look forward to working with you very soon.”

Clyde Anderson

Financial Specialist/Author of "What Had Happened Was"

Para Mind Publications

"In over 30 years in education, I've never seen anyone connect and lead students to success the way you do.  It's like they're sitting in their desks thirsting for the words that are pouring from your mouth, and you seem to know everything that's on their excited minds.  We are all fortunate to have been a part of the "WALK" experience.  Keep up the great work Kiddo.”

 Who is Keene Walker?

Jamila M. Porter

 In our lifetimes, we are truly blessed if we ever encounter one individual that fully empowers and inspires us to become the best version of ourselves.  Such a person not only inspires us alone, but ignites within us a burning passion to inspire others to grow, advance, and achieve.  This individual is to be admired and esteemed by all he meets, for he not possesses the power to inspire and mobilize millions, but maintains the potential to revolutionize the way we perceive the world in which we live.  Although this individual is generally described in rhetorical terms, for me all of these qualities are embodied within one man:  Keene Walker.

 Even at first glance, Keene is a man whose ideals and opinions both challenge and inspire.  In every encounter with him, he forces you to expand your horizons and question every axiom, paradigm, or theorem you have ever held true.  He is a revolutionary, a radical, a man who often asks the questions that many are afraid to ask and perhaps more are afraid to answer.  To say that Keene Walker is a “great teacher” is both an inaccuracy and a painful underestimation.  He is in fact so much more… a stirring orator, an insightful debater, a awe-inspiring educator, a provocative motivator, a dynamic instructor, an impassioned advocate…indeed, the list goes on. 

 Keene Walker is capable of the kind of power that made men fear Martin and cower before Malcolm.  His ideology is so volatile, so compelling, so true, and so necessary, that to not realize his dream is to not realize your very own.  In one conversation, in one lesson, he can shake your very foundations and inspire you to question every belief you have ever held true.  His astounding drive to obtain and divulge truth is so strong, that you cannot help but do the same.  It is Keene’s passion for educating and motivating the disenfranchised of society that makes him such an enigma:  Who is this man who seeks to serve the disadvantaged, the misunderstood, the ignored, and the forgotten?  How is it that he can empower the powerless, can compel the aimless, and speak for the voiceless?  He is a man that is beyond reckoning, and yet, he has only begun to fight.  His fight is one that has spanned decades, and has encompassed aspects of racial, social, and educational inequality.  And when his battle is won – for it is only a matter of when – it will only be the dawn of a new era.  And historians will look back on our time, and most assuredly wonder what we possibly would have done without the outstanding leadership of the one and only Keene Walker.

Mr. Walker maybe contacted directly at:

Office: (770) 374-3902

Fax: (770) 994-8177

Direct: (770) 335-5036

info@dare2caretechnologies.com