Harrison spent seven years as the Administrator of the Office of Youth Services in DOL’s Employment Training Administration (ETA), where he helped lead and manage the nation’s $3 billion youth employment training system, serving hundreds of thousands of youth in the U.S. annually. The Youth Opportunity Grants initiative, a sophisticated systems development demonstration program focused on improving outcomes of 14 – to 21-year-old youth from 36 high poverty communities in the U.S., was a major focal point during Harrison’s tenure at ETA.

​He established the first Office of Youth Services at the Department of Labor in over twenty years. The Youth Opportunity program alone served 93,000 at-risk youth, including youngsters in the juvenile justice system, placing almost half of them in jobs, high school graduation, or college enrollment, and created a leadership institute that serviced 1,500 frontline youth workers in 36 communities nationwide.

​Regarded as one of the founding staff of the STRIVE program in East Harlem, New York, where he worked for over a decade before going to D.C., Harrison has considerable knowledge and experience leading and managing innovative, cutting edge non-profit organizations. He served as chief operating officer, responsible for leading this national, non-profit employment and training organization, then comprised of 31 sites in 11 cities. In the employment training arena, STRIVE is considered one of the nation’s premier community-based job training programs, credited with ‘putting a face’ on soft skills training and demonstrating the value of attitudinal development and long-term post-placement support of youth and young adults from low-income communities. STRIVE influenced various elements of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.

​Lorenzo holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from New York University. He is a Kellogg Foundation National Fellow. Mr. Harrison and his wife, Glenda, live in Waldorf, Maryland, and are the proud parents of a son and daughter, and have five grandchildren.

After large-scale research demonstration experiences as a research analyst with MDRC in New York City, Mosi joined Students at the Center (SAC) shortly before synergizing leadership roles with SAC, Resurrection After Exoneration, and Innocence Project New Orleans. Spanning eight years, Mosi co-facilitated SAC’s Bard Early College English Courses across multiple New Orleans Public Schools, advancing post-conviction investigations, critical literacy- exchange, and shared-inquiry among secondary-post-secondary-post-baccalaureate (law) students, exonerated men and Angola prisoners – most of whom resided in neighborhoods bearing the highest incarceration rate in the world.

​Forming a constituency to critically assess, locate and liberate themselves within the carceral system, students centered discourse and action to circumvent power disparities maintained by the prison and academic-industrial complexes, as co-director, Mosi’s contributions refined SAC’s dialogic pedagogy and 21st Century Slavery and Human Trafficking course theme resulting in the release and exoneration of numerous persons serving life sentences and exoneration compensation policy reform in Louisiana. As a 2014 Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow and 2015 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Finalist, Mosi joined impacted communities and stakeholders nationally and abroad, co-organizing Andover Bread Loaf at Phillip Academy’s 4th International Education Conference in Port-au- Prince, Haiti. Facilitating cultural exchanges among youth descendants of the Haitian Revolution and New Orleans 1811 Slave Revolt, Mosi centered intergenerational Maroonage legacies of resistance and mutual aid in the wake of the 2010 Earthquake, Hurricane Katarina, and ensuing Disaster Capitalism. Mosi serves as a Sankofa Cultural Institute board member and principal of Star Institute for Conscious Organization.