Life & Work with Semaj White

Today we’d like to introduce you to Semaj White. Them and their team share their story with us below:

Semaj White was born in the early 80s in south-central California. Early in his childhood, he was labeled at risk due to being raised in the midst of gang violence drugs in an impoverished culture. At the early age of five years old Semaj’s father was murdered and gun down in the LA streets to his surprise this would be the life-altering event that catapults him directly into his destiny.

At the early age of 14 years old serving at New Bethel apostolic on King and western as a youth president Semaj developed a desire to serve the community by providing resources to individuals who were Who are at risk of homelessness, poverty or was ignorant to Services and things the community may possible for them to Secure.

During his childhood, he grew up loving the sport of basketball where are you learn determination, teamwork, resilience and how to win. Specifically in order to be a winner, you had to accept your losses because in all defeat our lessons that will make you better in the long run. This same idea has been apply to his life. After high school Semaj matriculated to Grambling State University where he earned a bachelor’s in social work, a master’s in the arts of teaching the social sciences and a master’s in criminal justice. For the last 15 years, Semaj has devoted his life to unselfish living he has joined the illustrious fraternity of Omega Psi Phi and has created programs that alleviate barriers to self-sufficiency in low-income communities. Today we highlight a couple of his entrepreneurial businesses in which the city of Los Angeles have been blessed to benefit from. The first is HEROS. HEROS spelled HEROS is an acronym for holistic empowerment restorative outreach services. Heroes operate as both nonprofit and for-profit Paul’s mission is to equip youth and families with the skills to become self-sufficient. This is done by alleviating barriers to self-sufficiency, Including transportation, educational barriers, lack of food, criminal records and etc.

Semaj is target population has been males who has extensive conflicts in their communities both youth and families who have mental illnesses and displays an inability to cope with those mental illnesses, individuals who lack interpersonal skills and individuals who have had repeated interventions by social services department of children and family services and other governmental agencies.

For the past several years, HEROS has partnered with nonprofits such as avenues of life avenues to success the unspoken truth welcome to wellness by the Wolf print and others To target the specific neighborhood of Crenshaw and Slauson where he grew up to offer resources and education to dismantle the ideologies of what success looks like in the eyes of our at-risk youth.

In addition to HEROS advocacy group Semaj also our owns and operates Purple Haze Exclusives which is a physical location that houses entrepreneurs products that are exclusive to the public in addition to CBD health and wellness and other items that you cannot get directly off the streets. This business venture has been utilized solely to create an apprentice program for young entrepreneurs to flourish without having a physical location to house and sell their own products.

In addition to those great ventures Semaj steel coaches AAU basketball for Diamonds N The Ruff and trains on in his spare time. Recently Mr. White has created an established us and nothing entertainment as an independent record label and has now been featuring artists he met and worked within college. The first compilation project is set to drop January 1 the title of the project is called the syndicate notable artists appearing on this project is MC eight, the game, Glasses Malone, J Holiday, BriccBaby, Jayo Felonie, T Rell, Devin The Dude, and more!

Semaj wants to leave this message as a child he learned to put God first it didn’t really matter what others start or how others labeled him as long as he knew who he was in Christ. Semaj has not always been a saint. I have struggled, I have felt, I have cried, I have made mistakes but at the end of the day, I kept going Avenue and you should to Highway.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
The obstacles faced had very much to do with the color of my skin and my gender. Being born a black male in Los Angeles was not easy for multiple reasons. I’ve had to learn to watch over my shoulder for law-enforcement. In addition gangs and other forces have the real mini dreams in the big city of Los Angeles, California.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I believe what sets me apart from others is recognizing my human nature excepting responsibility and accountability for my own actions have a new ability to love beyond faults and being a warrior understanding that everything is going to go all the time as planned.

What do you like best about our city? What do you like least?
Los Angeles is the city of great expectation and possibility all road and one what I love the most is there are no limits to who you can be in their many avenues to help you reach those goals. On the contrary, one of the things I hate about our city is that most individuals who are praised are looked at as he rolls only dominate sports and entertainment individuals like myself who have overcame obstacles of the street life and matriculated to college sometimes is looked at as a “sucka”. You are less desirable.

Contact Info:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: www.herosadvocacygroup.com
• Instagram: @usornothingentllc