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Writer. Storyteller. Scholar.
Dr. Terence Lester is a storyteller, public scholar, speaker, community activist, and author.
He is the Founder and Executive Director of Love Beyond Walls, a nonprofit organization focused on raising awareness about poverty and homelessness and on community mobilization. Additionally, he serves as the Director of Public Policy and Social Change and as a professor at Simmons College of Kentucky (HBCU). He received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Public Policy and Social Change from Union Institute and University.
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Last updated: May 18, 2026
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ExternalHomelessness Before College
Jul 21, 2025
Thinking About the Students I Encountered
ExternalHolding On to Hope
Jul 24, 2025
Serving, healing, and staying grounded in a heavy world
ExternalA Closer Look at the Executive Order Targeting the Unhoused Community
Jul 26, 2025
When Punishment Replaces Care and Community
ExternalWhat We Miss When We Talk About Poverty
Jul 30, 2025
The Danger of Oversimplifying Struggle
ExternalWhen Poverty Meets The Classroom
Aug 5, 2025
Watch now (13 mins) | A Conversation on Hope, Education, and Homelessness w/ Ray James
ExternalKindness in the Midst of Cancer
Aug 10, 2025
Watch now (10 mins) | Suffering, Compassion, and the God Who Cares
ExternalA Live Book Reading, Conversation, and A Deeper Why
Aug 14, 2025
An Invitation to Something Personal (Atlanta)
ExternalVolunteers Transform a Title I Classroom
Aug 29, 2025
A Second Zion’s Closet at Liberty Point Elementary School
ExternalWhat Is Sustaining My Compassion
Sep 3, 2025
This past weekend, I got a chance to speak at a church here in Atlanta, and to be honest it was my first message I have delivered in a church space since losing my father last year.
ExternalWhat It Took for Me to Overcome Recent Adversity
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A Conversation on Faith, Healing, and Grief Recovery with My Friend Tedashii
ExternalDear Student and Future Student
Sep 9, 2025
Today, My Fifth Book Releases Into the World
ExternalHungry to Learn?
Oct 2, 2025
Why Meeting Students’ Basic Needs Is an Urgent Education Issue
ExternalNo Longer a Professor
Oct 17, 2025
What Government Layoffs Are Revealing
ExternalA Public Apology for Those Who Are Hungry
Oct 28, 2025
A reflection on hunger, moral responsibility, and the cost of political indifference
External20 Hours on Top of a Refrigerator!!!
Nov 5, 2025
Project Open Fridge + Love Beyond Walls
External30 Hours on the Fridge
Nov 7, 2025
What an Empty Refrigerator Is Teaching Me About Humanity
External75 Hours on Top of an Empty Refrigerator
Nov 12, 2025
Ten Days, Cold Temperatures, and Community
ExternalInterviewing on The Kelly Clarkson Show
Nov 26, 2025
Turning Visibility Into Real Support for 700+ Students in Fulton County
ExternalGood News Worth Naming in 2026
Jan 2, 2026
Against the odds, we opened a third Zion’s Closet and watched community show up in real ways.