Devin C. Hughes

Devin C. Hughes is an award winning speaker, best selling Author & former college basketball player who speaks to a variety of groups, organizations, and teams who have a desire to break down barriers and make communication easier through greater self awareness and understanding of each other.

Devin’s moment of change came the day he graduated from Colgate University. On that summer afternoon in 1991, he sat frozen with regret: he knew without a doubt that he had squandered his greatest opportunity—an education.

The son of a black father and white mother, Devin grew up in a mixed—and mixed up—world. His home life was chaotic, riddled with his parents’ drug use and unconventional ways of educating; dyslexia made academic learning a seemingly insurmountable challenge; and his identity was beyond confusing—was he black because he felt black or white because he looked white? Devin knew one thing: he needed to escape his environment and get into college, beyond which he believed the world would open up to him.