Sam Collier didn’t have his first white friend until he was 21 years old.
“It wasn’t until I had this friend that I realized how different our worlds were. He didn’t understand my world, and I didn’t really understand his,” says Collier.
It might be helpful to know that Sam is one of five children, but when he and his twin sister were born, his dad was not in the picture and his mother gave the twins up for adoption.
Sam grew up surrounded by people who looked just like him in Decatur, Georgia. His dad owned a barbershop, and his mother quit a corporate position at FedEx to focus on raising him and his sister.
Today, Sam is a communicator at Northpoint Ministries as well as the director of city strategy for The reThink Group. He is also a nationally syndicated TV and radio host (A Greater Story podcast reaches 100 million homes weekly), a Top 20 Gospel Billboard producer and the founder of No Losing Inc. In these roles, he has empowered more than 80,000 young people to have a winning mindset in life to achieve their goals by creatively making education relevant to youth.