Steven Whitehurst

After college he worked for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as an Investigator. In 1991, Whitehurst returned to his alma mater -- South Suburban College—as the Academic Skills/Transition Advisor for the Student Support Services TRIO Grant Program. In 1994, he was promoted to an administrative post as the college's Director of Student Development, where he initiated, developed, and oversaw the school's first transfer articulation agreement with a historically Black college/university - Wilberforce University. In the position of Director of Student Development he managed seven departments, both in academic and student support areas—including the Student Support Services Grant Program for which he had previously worked. In 1996, he was forced to retire due to health issues.

After graduating from Thornton Township High School in 1984, Whitehurst attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where he was a U.S. Air Force ROTC student. He moved on to become a double degree high honors graduate of Thornton Community College—now South Suburban College—with degrees in history and geography. While there Whitehurst was inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Fraternity. He then graduated Cum Laude from Chicago State University with a B.A. in history and a minor in political science. Whitehurst later returned to Chicago State University to pursue additional educational credits in the history/ethnic studies graduate degree program. His political activities included participating in civil rights marches for racial/social justice; working as a canvasser for numerous political campaigns including those of Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Judge R. Eugene Pincham, and the Jesse Jackson presidential campaign, 1988; and being appointed and briefly serving as the Illinois Solidarity Party's 2nd Congressional District State Central Committeeman and Thornton Township Committeeman.

Steven Whitehurst (born 1967) is an African-American author, poet, and educator who currently resides in Calumet City, Illinois.