Reverend Robert A.Wilkins, Sr.

 

Reverend Robert A. Wilkins, Sr. is the President and ChiefExecutive Officer of the YMCA of the East Bay in Oakland, CA.The YMCA annually serves 55,000 youth and adults in Alamedaand West Contra Costa counties with a wide variety of youthdevelopment, healthy living and social responsibility programs and services. Rev. Wilkins is the founder and Managing Director of Encounter Alliance™, a consulting firm which advises churches and faith-inspired organizations on all aspects of organizational development and mission fulfillment. 

Rev. Wilkins is also a theological educator serving asProfessor of New Testament at the Leadership Institute at Allen Temple, as well as Adjunct Professor of Functional Theology at the American Baptist Seminary of the West (teaching subjects such as The Nonprofit as Prophet: The Purpose and Practice of Nonprofit Organizations in Capitalist Society, The Church as Social Institution, The Bible and Public Policy, and Morality in Social Life). He is the former Associate Minister for Young Adults at the Allen Temple Baptist Church. He is currently a member at the Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church of Oakland.

Rev. Wilkins is a graduate of the University of Southern California(Religion - Biblical Studies) and earned Master of Divinity degrees from both Fuller Theological Seminary and American Baptist Seminary of the West. He has completed class studies in the Doctor of Ministry program at San Francisco Theological Seminary and holds a Certificate in Strategic Marketing from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Rev. Wilkins is a graduate of the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders and is an alumnus Fellow at the Center for Social Innovation both at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Rev. Wilkins serves a host of community and professional organizations including: American Baptist Seminary of the West, East Bay Economic Development Alliance, GO Public Schools, and the Graduate Theological Union.