Reverend Dr. Alex Gee, is a serial social entrepreneur and innovator who has over 40 years of non-profit leadership and extensive fundraising experience across several organizations including:
- Lead Pastor of Fountain of Life Covenant Church and longest running pastor in Madison, WI.
- Founder, President Emeritus, Chair of the Board, and visionary for Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development and its renowned initiative, Justified Anger. The programs of Nehemiah have focused on youth empowerment and leadership development, family and community wellness, economic development, and reentry services for the formerly incarcerated. Justified Anger is a solutions-oriented movement that mobilized the Madison community to address long-standing racial inequities and the coalition has educated over 5,000 people in it’s highly sought after community class titled “Black History for a New Day.”
- Founder and CEO of The Center for Black Excellence and Culture focused on “rebuilding our people, culture, wealth, and ultimately our community.”
Creator and host of the award-winning podcast Black Like Me which is now in its 11th season that has attracted listeners in all 50 states and in 150 countries on over 70 podcast platforms.
He has raised over $70 million dollars to invest into his community across those organizations with the most recent fundraising efforts of raising $33 million dollars to build The Center completely debt free. Dr. Gee’s extensive experience doesn’t stop there! He has taught and lectured worldwide, in places including India, South Africa, Cambodia, South Korea and Canada while also authoring two books. He is currently working on authoring his Memoir set to come out in Fall of 2026.
In recognition of his outstanding community work. Dr. Gee studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fuller Seminary, and Bakke Graduate University, where he earned his doctorate and most recently awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gee has received numerous honors including the City of Madison’s Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award in 1994, and was asked to provide an inspirational message at the White House for President H.W. Bush’s staff. In 1995 the Madison Community Foundation recognized him for his “Outstanding Contributions to the Community,” and he has been saluted by the Wisconsin-State Journal as one of the “Ten Who Made a Difference.”
Gee is also a husband, father, adjunct faculty worker, community activist and servant, life coach, relief worker who is moving into creating space for social cohesion and in the process of becoming a venture capitalize to fund similar projects to The Center to bring financial resources to black leaders around the world!