Dr. Wade W. Nobles is the son of Annie Mae Cotton (1914b) and John Nobles (1900b). John Nobles' father was Mims Nobles who was born into the barbarism of American slavery in 1863. Mims' father was Wade Nobles who was born into the savagery of slavery in 1836. Wade Nobles was the oldest son of Candace/Agnes (Cilla) who was also born into captivity in Edgefield, South Carolina in 1810. Dr. Nobles is the namesake of his great grandfather, Agnes'oldest son. His mother and father named him Wade which means one who is able to tred through difficult matter like slavery, mud, snow, or ignorance. Dr. Nobles is a co-founding member and Past President (1994-95) of the Association of Black Psychologists and Professor Emeritus in Africana Studies and Black Psychology (Past Dept Chair, 1997 – 1999) at San Francisco State University. He is the founding Executive Director (retired) of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture (est 1968) in Oakland where he spent over 40 years researching, documenting, publishing, designing and implementing African centered service and training programs. Dr. Nobles has studied classical African philosophy (Kemet, Twa & Nubian) and traditional African wisdom traditions (Akan, Yoruba, Bantu, Wolof, Dogon, Fon,Lebou, etc) as the grounding for the development of an authentic Black psychology. His professional career and life’s work has been no less than a formal engagement in the on-going theoretical development and programmatic application of African (Black) psychology, African centered thought, and cultural grounding to address the liberation and restoration of the African mind and world-wide development of African people. He has conducted eighty nationally funded community-based research, training and development projects. Dr. Nobles was Initiated into the IFA spiritual system of Nigeria in 1992 and named Ifágbemì Sàngódáre. An internationally recognized Pan Africanist, Dr. Nobles is the author of over one hundred (100)articles, chapters, research reports and books; the co-author of the seminal article in Black Psychology, Voodoo or IQ: An Introduction to African Psychology; the author of African Psychology: Toward its Reclamation, Reascension and Revitalization; Seeking the Sakhu: Foundational Writings in African Psychology, an anthology of over thirty years of African centered research and scholarship, The Island of Memes: Haiti’s Unfinished Revolution described by Dr. Theophile Obenga as perhaps the most important book of the last five decades, and his recent contribution, SKH, From Black Psychology to the Science of Being that traces the advent of Black psychology and its evolution to the science of being. His work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and French. Baba Dr. Nobles has served as a visiting professor in Salvador de Bahia and Sao Paulo in Brazil, England, Ghana, West Africa, and Capetown, South Africa. He currently serves as the chairperson of the ABPsi Pan African Black Psychology Global Initiative with members in Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Great Britain, Jamaica, Canada, Haiti, and Ghana. He served as the lead author of the African American Wellness Hub Complex Design Report (2017), for the Behavioral Health Care Services in Alameda County California and is the project director for the Interim Virtual Hub Project.