He is also a senior fellow for community engagement strategies at the University of Georgia’s Fanning Institute for Public Service and Outreach. For more than 30 years Hooker has been a mediator, facilitator, and community organizer. He has worked throughout the United States, focusing on issues of environmental justice, post-riot racial reconciliation, community development, democratization, and multiparty conflict resolution. Hooker has also worked in Bosnia/Croatia, Cuba, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia, Southern Sudan, and Zimbabwe. He holds a JD from Emory University’s School of Law, an MDiv from the Candler School of Theology, MPH and MPA from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, a Masters of Minority Mental Health from Washington University in St. Louis, and a BS from Morehouse College.