Demitri C. Kornegay
2005 LOE Award Recipient
"Our Better Halves" Award Recipient
Given in appreciation for his efforts to nurture and nourish his relationship with his partner.
 Demitri C. Kornegay is currently a lieutenant and a 22 year veteran with the Montgomery County Police Department in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Born and reared in Washington, D.C., he graduated from Calvin Coolidge High School in the District in 1974. Demitri lettered in track, was All-American and All-Met in Football, and was nominated "Outstanding Teenager of America" by Coolidge's principal, the late Otis W. Thompson, for his leadership and work with the many committees in the school. He attended the University of Richmond, Virginia, on a football scholarship and graduated in 1979 with majors in Speech Communications, Theater Arts, and minored in Sociology.
Demitri has volunteered his time and services to the Washington Urban League as a tutor at Whittier Elementary school in their "Operation Rescue" program after volunteering for the City of Richmond's campaign against sexually transmitted diseases. He was nominated as one of the "Outstanding Young Men of America" and is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. He still volunteers his time with Woodson Senior High School's "Stop the Violence" program.
As a Deacon at Galilee Baptist Church in Suitland, Maryland, Kornegay spearheaded the "Let's Celebrate our Men Project" which established a "Proud Fathers Roll Call of Honor" in 1991. In 1992, he developed an award-winning 12-week, Rites of Passage program for young men called "Men Under Construction." The program, which has been running for 13 years, teaches table manners, public speaking, setting a personal budget, and choosing the "right" woman, to young men aged 13 to 21 and classes are starting in Detroit, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Houston.
On November 7, 1996, he was presented the J. Franklin Bourne Association's prestigious, "Award for Community Service," for founding the program that now has taught over 300 young men. A gifted motivational speaker, Demitri is well known in the Washington D.C. area for the "frank and to-the-point" messages he has delivered to high schoolers.
The author of four books, "Dear Rhonda-Life Lessons From A Father to His Daughter," (his latest) and "Dear Sons, Letters You Wish Your Father Had Written To You," (due to released this fall) Demitri has appeared on such television and radio broadcasts as "Good Morning America, The View, The Bev Smith Show, Fox Morning News, The Bernie McCain Show, The Donnie Simpson Show, and The Tavis Smiley Show."
He has conducted workshops and forums at the Prince George's County, Maryland, Fatherhood Conference, the African American Male Empowerment Summit, African American Women On Tour, and Blacks In Government (BIG). He has been a Visiting Scholar at Hampton University, in Hampton Virginia, and Clark Atlanta University, in Atlanta, Georgia. He has also trained the new deaconate candidates at Galilee.
In Brandywine, Maryland, he's been called "Coach Deacon" for the last five years at Gwynn Park Senior High School. It has been there that he has volunteered his services as running back coach for their championship football team. His motto, which has become the team's creed is, "No Excuses, Do the Work!"
Demitri C. Kornegay is married to the former Angela Nichols of Baltimore, Maryland, has one daughter, 22 year old Rhonda Michelle Kornegay, and about 350 sons.
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