Leonard G, Dunston is Vice President of Preudhomme, Dunston and Associates, a consulting and management training firm. Mr. Dunston is also the former Commissioner of the New York State Division for Youth (currently known as the Office of Children and Family Services), a position he held for an agency-record twelve years prior to retiring in 1995 after 29 years of public service. In addition, he is President Emeritus / National Political Advisor of the National Association of Black Social Workers, Inc., of which he served as National President from 1994 to 1998.

Mr. Dunston has appeared on over thirty-five national television and radio talk show programs including "Nighttime", CNN, C-SPAN, nationally syndicated "Night Talk" and Eve Smith radio shows. As a highly respected national and international speaker, Mr. Dunston has given over 400 public speeches, including commencement addresses. He has also facilitated numerous training seminars and participated in countless panel presentations. Mr. Dunston has traveled and lectured extensively in various countries including Africa and the Caribbean, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, St. Lucia, Grenada, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago and Canada (Toronto). During his trip in August 1998 to the Republic of Benin, West Africa, His Excellency President Mathieu Kérékou granted Head of State status to Mr. Dunston during the country's 38^th anniversary of independence.

Mr. Dunston has been featured in Ebony and Ebony Mm magazines, The New York Times and numerous local newspapers and journals. He is also the recipient of over 300 awards, citations, and keys to cities. Mr. Dunston received a fellowship from the George Soros Foundation in 1998 to implement a "Rites of Passage" program to address She needs of adjudicated youth. He has also lectured on social and political issues at sixteen colleges and universities. In 1995, he was a featured speaker and organizer at the historic Million Man March in Washington, D.C., and he helped to organize the December 2001 State of the Black World Conference in Atlanta, GA where he was a featured speaker. On October 14, 2005 at Howard University, Mr. Dunston co-convened, with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the Million More Movement Black Family Summit of 30 Black national organizations in support of families displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Mr. Dunston is also a founding member of the National Black Independent Political Party, an executive board member of the Institute of the Black World 21^st Century and the Harvest Institute, a member of the Litigation Committee of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA), a board member of the National Black Leadership Commission of AIDS, a board member of the All Healers Mental Health Alliance, and a lifetime member of the NAACP.

His diverse public service record spans three decades. After serving two years in the U.S. Army, Mr. Dunston began his career as a Street Gang Worker in New York City. Subsequent experiences followed as a former union organizer and President, and a local and national community activist. He has served three New York City Mayors and two Governors (Governor James B. Hunt in North Carolina and Governor Mario M. Cuomo in New York). During Governor Cuomo's tenure, Mr. Dunston served as Commissioner of the New York State Division for Youth where he managed a budget of over $250 million, 3,500 employees, 140 office buildings and institutions and chaired or participated in over 60 Boards, Commissions, State and National Associations. Mr. Dunston graduated from Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Secondary Education. He was inducted into his beloved Livingstone's Hail of Fame in 2002. He also received a Master of Social Work Administration degree from Hunter College School of Social Work in New York, NY. Mr. Dunston is most proud of his 40-plus years of marriage to the former Gladys Sapp, his Livingstone College sweetheart, and his two children, daughter Kioka and son Kwame. Both Kioka and Kwame are graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Hampton University and North Carolina Central University respectively).

Lenny, as friends and family fondly call him, is firmly rooted in the philosophy that is best summarized by the African proverb: "Working together, the ants ate the elephant."