The Builder of People, Places and Things, Malik Yoba
New #TeesMe Podcast with Actor and Real Estate Developer Malik Yoba
What You’ll Hear
- Recent project highlights - The Equalizer
- Yoba Development “Builder of People, Places and Things”
- NYC Parks Dept, BMX bikes, and a seat at the table
- From “God friended me” to the Real Estate Development
- “How do we, become they?”
- Self-education from the streets, YouTube, Google & God
- Nature & Nurture - Living in flow
- “the first real estate you own, is in your mind”
- Spirituality, Golf, & #WillLarkin, #PayneStewart
- Heart Health, know your family history
- Check out “Crime + Punishment” #EdwinRaymond
- NY Undercover flashbacks (before the Fox we see today)
- The ’97 Ryder Cup, Valderama, Sotogrande, Spain
- Yes, I still like Van Cortlandt, so you know where I’ll be
Things you should know
Mentions:
-IG: @malikyoba, @bridge_golf, @livingstonedeveloper
@mauricecolemna, @robesonhousephl, @doradobeach,
#RobertoClemente
Bio:
Although this Hollywood veteran offers over three decades of commitment to the arts with over fifty film credits and more than a dozen lead roles in network/cable television series, he considers himself a community and youth advocate first. Born in the South Bronx and raised in Harlem, it was his debut in the Disney classic Cool Runnings and his performance as NYPD Detective J.C. Williams in the groundbreaking police drama, New York Undercover, that catapulted Malik into the fabric of American culture. A serial entrepreneur, the emerging real estate developer has projects in NYC and Baltimore and is currently in post- production for his educational docu-series, The Real Estate Mixtape, Volume 1: I Build NY. The series follows Malik and a cohort of youth as he navigates is first commercial real estate deal in NYC. In 2022, Malik received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Livingstone University and has been offered the role of Honorary Chair of the School of Construction at Pratt University.
Yoba has been a guest on numerous talk shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Inside The Actors Studio, The Wendy Williams Show, and Charlie Rose. He was a lead regular as FBI Deputy Director Jason Atwood on the ABC drama Designated Survivor. He hosted TV One’s documentary crime series Justice By Any Means. Other series include Alphas, Defying Gravity, Bull, Trinity, Kingpin, Raines and Thief. He has had recurring roles on Revolution, Arrested Development, Girlfriends, Single Ladies and has appeared in numerous guest-starring roles including Justified, Blue Bloods, Limitless, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Law and Order and Nikita. He also appeared in Jordan Peele’s TBS’ comedy with Tracey Morgan The Last OG as well as the drama series Seven Seconds on Netflix, God Friended Me for CBS and The First Wives Club for BET.
At 23, he was named Vice President of the City Kids Foundation and served from 1991-1993. For his dedication to youth, Yoba has been recognized by or worked with US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, The Congress of the United States, The Mayor of New York City, NYPD, UNICEF, McDonald’s Black Achievers, Hale House, The Ethiopian Children’s Fund, The Conference of Black Mayors, The Congressional Black Caucus and more. He is also a well sought after inspirational speaker and presents workshops to corporations, prisons, colleges, universities, churches and community organizations that focus on various topics ranging from diversity and inclusion, leadership, team building and mass incarceration reform
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