Leadership & Excellence
Leadership Profile
Archange Antoine is a creative entrepreneur, an accomplished public figure, and a courageous faith leader whose life, work, and innovation have established him as a national leader on social investments, organizational development, community organizing, and public safety issues confronting America.
Executive
Archange Antoine is a multi-talented businessman with 15 years of experience in the public, private, non-profit, and government sectors. He is passionate about investing in human capital, helping businesses make profits, developing strategy, and executing implementation. He enjoys leading institutions through the decision-making process and helping them view solutions from a community and global perspective.
Archange Antoine is the President and CEO of Savviors, an international strategy firm. He has previously served as President of a local school board, helping manage a $50-million budget; Executive Director of a statewide organization leading a network of 10,000 people; and business advisor to local, state, and international organizations. He has been at the forefront of achieving organizational goals, driving social innovation, and prioritizing community development.
Minister
Archange Antoine is in love with the gospel of Jesus Christ which focuses on helping those who have lost hope due to personal and systemic issues. It inspires him to engage in the public sphere, working with church members, the wider community, and various partners to find transformational solutions for people who have lost hope due to living in poverty, oppression, and in a system that denies God’s people their rights, freedom, and human dignity.
Archange has a long history of working with other religions and faith traditions on the difficult journey toward achieving social justice. His relationship with other clergy leaders and community members goes beyond common interest in the social, political, and economic mobility of people in the community. He believes strong relationships begin by validating others’ humanity, seeing each person as a sibling—part of the global family. It is only by recognizing our common humanity that we can lock arms to transform the future of our neighborhoods, communities, nation, and world.
Archange received his Master of Divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary, is an ordained Minister in the Baptist church, and was an ordained Elder in the Pentecostal tradition. He has a strong faith in the Living God who has no limits. This faith in the Living God informs his inclusive outlook on salvation and how God’s people are spread throughout the world and even in other religions. He loves teaching Roman Christian history (200–400), Reformation History (1400–1500), and American Christian history (1600 –1900) because he believes most Christians have been deprived of fundamental Christian history.
Human Rights Organizer
Archange comes from a long family tradition of service. His brother is a pastor who dedicates his life to helping the homeless and those fighting drug addiction. His sister is a survivor of suicide who dedicates her life to supporting those with mental health challenges. His family all learned the power of service by watching their mom who took young women into their home who had been kicked out of their own homes. She would welcome them into the family and support them until they graduated high school and started working.
Archange’s family are immigrants from Haiti who came to America as political refugees during the three-decade Duvalier dictatorship, which killed 60,000 Haitian citizens. His family’s story helped shape his interest in foreign policy and how to bring attention to those facing state violence. Over the years, Archange has worked with allies to criticize America’s foreign policy, which perpetuates war, maintains the military-industrial complex, props up dictators, assassinates foreign diplomats, and destabilizes sovereign nations to advance the interest of multinational corporations. Archange has worked with coalition partners and human rights organizations on issues ranging from ending the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to holding the governments of Hong Kong, Nigeria, Israel, and the Dominican Republic accountable for their human rights violations.
Politico
Archange believes it is essential to be involved and engaged in the political and electoral process. Public policies can support people, build communities, and set the next generation up for success or they can hurt individuals, dismantle neighborhoods, and set the younger generation back for centuries. He believes that people must work in groups, coalitions, and through movements to ensure their voices are at the table when decisions are being made, especially if they are going to advance transformational issues that improve the material condition of people, especially the poor.
He served in local, state, and national roles party roles to help win elections for local, county, state, and national candidates. Eventually, he ran for office, won, and become one of the youngest elected officials on the school board for almost 10 years. As an elected official, he dedicated his public service to challenging the status quo, calling out corruption, advancing economic integrity, and doing everything in his power to promote policies that helped children and the people in the community.
Today, he spends most of his time mentoring people running for office, bridging the gap between the community and the legislature, and ensuring marginalized voices are trained, organized and ready to advance their own agenda in the public arena.
Adjunct Professor
Archange Antoine loves teaching, lecturing, and sharing new life-changing and grounding materials with people who he hopes will go on and help make this world a better place. He loves lecturing between the lines of history, idealism, pragmatism, and radical imagination. Archange believes teaching is the best tool to ensure we foster smart and gifted human beings, healthy communities, and the next generation of leaders.
For six years, he served as Adjunct Professor at Kean University where he worked in the Communication Department and taught Mediation, Public Speaking, and International Conflict Resolution. He was also a guest class lecturer at Rutgers University, Seton Hall University, and LaGuardia Community College, The City University of New York where he taught personal and professional development and lectured on topics ranging from racial and economic inequalities to the power of mentoring and faith-based grassroots community organizing for social justice
Philanthropist
Archange is thankful for the individuals, organizations, and programs that have supported his education and professional development as well as helped him learn the importance of giving back to the community. As a way of paying-it-forward, Archange continues to find new ways to re-invest in initiatives that have supported his professional and political development. He’s always finding new ways to be a part of the solution and encouraging others to get off the sidelines to invest in grassroots efforts that help people.
Archange believes in investing in the future leaders of America and movements advancing social change. Over the years, he has prioritized investing in organizations that develop young Black boys, initiatives that bolster civic engagement, movements that tackle police accountability, and programs that work to undo white supremacy and internalized anti-Black racism.
