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The Sanctuary Workshop is taught by people who have done the work and mentored others through it.
Mike Hughes
World of Work and Credential Building18
Mike Hughes is a community advocate and a consultant to Curls Jude Joseph on community programs. He also teaches in the Kansas City Transition program, where he works with young men who have been through the justice system. His teaching is as much mentoring as instruction: he stays with his students beyond the classroom and helps them find their way to work.
Carl Boyd
Stress and Anger Management; Livin’ in the City18
Carl Boyd created and hosted The Generation Rap, a talk radio show for teenagers that aired from 1987 to 1999. In 1999 he was inducted into the Mid-American Education Hall of Fame, and he has received the NAACP Lucile Bluford Lifetime Achievement Award in Kansas City.
He rejoined The Sanctuary Workshop’s consulting team in 2011. In 2015 he launched the Passing the Baton TV concept, featuring Kansas City icons. He joined the board of Crime Stoppers USA’s Kansas City chapter in 2018 and in 2019 became a youth counselor and staff mentor with Senergy Services, working with homeless youth.
He received the U.S. Tiger Foundation’s Distinguished Educator Award in 2020, published the calendar book 366 Messages for Students and Veterans in 2021, received the National Association of Black Veterans Humanitarian Award in 2023, and was named a Distinguished Elder by the Concerned Clergy of Kansas City in 2024. He is a life member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and of the National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE)23.
Derike Pitchford
CDL and Tool Identification
Derike Pitchford teaches CDL preparation and tool identification. He is a certified CDL third-party examiner. At the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) he worked as a driver, doing vehicle safety inspections and carrying passengers, and as a road supervisor, monitoring drivers, reducing risk and running route training. As a lead trainer he wrote training curricula and prepared many students to qualify for their CDL. He is a graduate of Van Horn High School.
Phil Marshall
CPR and General Safety
Phil Marshall teaches CPR and general safety. He has been a firefighter with the Kansas City, Missouri Fire Department since 2010 and is an American Heart Association CPR instructor. He attended Van Horn High School and Lincoln University23. Outside work he follows football, basketball and boxing.