Gemar Mills is an American author and speaker. He was the youngest principal of Malcolm X Shabazz High School when he took the job at age 27.

Education

Mills was born and raised in

Paterson, New Jersey Paterson ( ) is the largest City (New Jersey), city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey. In 2008, he received Master of Arts in Educational Leadership degree from American InterContinental University in Atlanta, and PhD in Education in Primary and Secondary Education in May 2017 from Seton Hall University.

The Future Project

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was hired by The Future Project to work as "Dream Director" at Malcolm X Shabazz High School. The Future Project partnered with Mills, who was then the school's principal, to address what was identified as one of the "country's most troubled high schools". The school was nicknamed "Baghdad", was being considered for closure, and had four principals in as many years. Newark schools had been part of an unsuccessful $100 million effort to improve the schools. The Future Project is an American non-profit organization aims to help underserved high school students.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mills, Gemar Living people American school principals African-American Christians African-American schoolteachers American motivational writers American motivational speakers American InterContinental University alumni Montclair State University alumni Seton Hall University alumni People from Paterson, New Jersey Writers from New Jersey Schoolteachers from New Jersey Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century African-American people