Experience

Youth Justice Network

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Job Developer

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  Coaches youth participants in jobs and internship searches, training and placement. Establishes and maintains working relationships with employers, industry organizations, and public agencies to source job openings and secure employment and vocational training opportunities for youth participants. Analyzes and evaluates an individual background skills and interests then matches them to potential opportunities. Coaches youth participants in jobs and internship searches, training and placement. Establishes and maintains working relationships with employers, industry organizations, and public agencies to source job openings and secure employment and vocational training opportunities for youth participants. Analyzes and evaluates an individual background skills and interests then matches them to potential opportunities.



Good Samaritans Men’s Outreach Ministry (GSMOM)

• • Founder and Executive Director

  • Jan 2007 - Present

  January 2018 to June 2020Under the auspices of the Programs component of the Youth Reentry Network and Friends of Island Academy and under our prison initiative (Good Samaritan’s Men’s Outreach – GSMO), we have implemented Life Skills Training at the Rikers Island complex. The program services 16 to 21 year old adolescent and young adult males. The GSMO Life Skills and Cognitive Thought Development Series for the Men’s Incarceration process is designed to provide tangible Life Skills for advancement, development and successful transition to their families, schools and communities upon release.April 2009 to May 2017Supervised the recruiting, training, and oversight of a dedicated team of volunteers to mentor justice involved youth in residential facilities throughout New York State including the Ella McQueen Intake Center, Brooklyn, NY; the Bronx Residential Center, The Bronx, NY; as well as the Goshen Secure Center, Goshen, NY as part of GSMOM’s Juvenile Incarceration Ministry. Reverend Shepherd was invited and served on the Community Relations Board for both the Ella McQueen and Goshen facilities. GSMOM is a not-for-profit, Faith and Community based organization whose mission is to help restore men of all backgrounds to their position as leaders in their families and communities.



Sumitomo, Mitsui Finance and Leasing

• Collections Specialist - Contractor, Asset Management (Remote)

  • Jun 2020 - Dec 2020

  Reports to the Asset Manager and is responsible for monitoring accounts to identify overdue payments, contacting all delinquent accounts, issuing Demand and Default Notices as needed, keeping accurate records and reporting on collection activity. Work closely with the Asset Management, Credit and Sales teams on delinquent customers that are seeking assistance via restructuring of their contractual obligations. Also assists the Accounting department with reconciling billing issues or payment misapplications.



Youth Justice Network

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• COORDINATOR, ADVOCACY & SUPPORT SERVICES - The Youth Reentry Network

  • Nov 2016 - Jun 2020

  Leads a team of Youth Advocates based at the Rose M. Singer Center, (woman’s facility) on Rikers Island, NY. Directing Advocates as they service 16 to 21 year old participants the coordinator ensures that staff is stationed at identified housing areas and work to initiate meaningful trust building engagements, initiate family outreach to ensure connectivity between participants their families and support with vital resources and services e.g. litigation services, educational and housing resources when they return to their communities.The Youth Reentry Network (The Network) is a newly created Demonstration Project developed in collaboration with the New York City Department of Correction to pilot, implement and evaluate the feasibility and impact of an innovative system of expediting, discharge planning and reentry/aftercare support for the youngest people housed in DOC custody.

• Mentoring Services Coordinator

  • Oct 2014 - Oct 2016

  Responsible for the development, implementation, staffing and oversight of the Step Up Program augmented by Friends Of Island Academy in accordance with the guidelines of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).The Step Up initiative is a federally funded program which will support the successful and safe transition of young fathers 16 to 24 years of age from secure confinement back to their children, families and communities.



National Association of Youth Chaplains (YCCP)

• • Certified Youth Chaplain (Volunteer)

  • Dec 2010 - Mar 2017

  Provide Pastoral Counseling and pastoral care to youth and or adults in an effort to bring healing to urban communities. Minister to youth applying NAYC’s holistic approach to Clinical Chaplaincy that builds bridges between the first and current generations, and between the secular and the sacred communities. Accredited by the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy (CPSP), the National Association of Youth Chaplains (NAYC), is a not-for-profit youth chaplaincy program developed by Rev. Dr. Alfred Correa. Rev. Shepherd also serves on the Board of Directors with NAYC.



Osborne Association/Friends Of Island Academy

• Lead Facilitator

  • Jul 2013 - Oct 2014

  Rikers Island’s Rose M Singer CenterABLE Program sponsored by The Osborne Association & The Friends of Island AcademyUtilize the Moral “RECOGNATION” Therapy (MRT) process to enable the criminal justice population at this facility to “re-learn” how to think and act as responsible people and contributing citizens. The program is based on the Cognitive-Behavioral Model (CBT), and utilizes Evidenced-Based Cognitive-Behavioral treatment materials — specifically, MRT®. The Osborne Association has successfully used cognitive behavioral therapy in different forms for nearly 10 years, and continues to garner transformative results as we positively implement MRT.



Youth Justice Network

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Mentor

  • Oct 2011 - Jul 2013

  ARCHES Program Joint effort project by the New York City Department of Probation and the Center for Economic Opportunity as part of the mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative (YMI)Leads a team of mentors as part of this group mentoring program that helps justice-involved young adults, ages 16-24, transform the attitudes and behaviors that led to their criminal activity. Coordinates Interactive Journaling among participants as a core component of this program, enabling mandated, post-sentence adolescents released from Rikers Island to decrease recidivism rates, reach untapped potential, and diminish minority over-representation among the youth population in New York City.



Bloomberg, LP

• Global Revenue Operations Manager - (Global Collections and Cust. Service Oversight)

  • Jan 2009 - Nov 2009



IPG - Constituency Management Group

• N.A Director, Credit & Collections Operations

  • Apr 2000 - May 2007