As president of the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), Roland is dedicated to NFI’s mission of improving the well-being of children by increasing the proportion of children that are raised with involved, responsible and committed fathers.
Under Roland’s direction, NFI works to accomplish its mission through a variety of activities, ranging from its award-winning public education campaign, which garnered over $500 million in donated media, to its cutting-edge resources and programming.
Under Roland’s leadership, the organization has quickly become one of the nation’s leading providers of fatherhood resources to communities, schools, prisons, hospitals, businesses, the military, and churches. FatherSOURCE™, a national fatherhood resource center run by NFI, now offers the most extensive assortment of specialized fatherhood resources in the world. Roland has played a key role in helping the organization establish strategic partnerships with businesses, government, and non-profit organizations across the country, and he frequently represents NFI in local and national media.
Roland, an alumnus of Princeton University, brings to NFI almost two decades of experience in the business world and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Roland is married to Dr. Yvette Lopez-Warren and has two sons, Jamin, a graduate of Harvard University and journalist, and Justin, a graduate of the University of North Carolina who recently completed a masters program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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