Bio
"Germika Pegram was AWESOME! I would love for her to come back!"
-Undergraduate Student Evaluation, Virginia Union University
(Virginia Union University Career Development Bootcamp)
"Ms. Pegram is one of a kind! She knows exactly how to inspire and ignite a room! With her spunk and realness she's sure to have you leaving and ready to tackle anything and make permanent change.
-C. Epps
Richmond, VA
"Germika Pegram is a game changer! She is passionate about the work she does and challenges listeners to think about things in a different way through humor and real-life experiences."
-R. Mosley
Founder, Urban Philanthropist
Germika (pronounced Ger-Me-Ka) Pegram also known as "Gee" is a Leadership and Self-Improvement Speaker that is dedicated to inspire and support others through her involvement to impart with essential directions for healthy living and decision making. Her highest priority integrates a passion and aptitude to connect with people wholeheartedly, as she provides the necessary tools concerning professional and educational pursuits and improvement of individuals, families, relationships, and communities.
As a motivational speaker and radio/television pundit, she focuses on two of the most profound and unresolved epidemics that affect African-Americans on a daily basis: stigmatization and the impact of racism, which are strongly exhibited throughout society today. Germika's observations and expertise concerning the most imperative facets to healthy living and self-motivation also peaks the significance of situational factors that influence the behaviors of individuals and groups, resiliency, and holistic approaches for people to recognize and comprehend.
Over the years, her dedication and industry proficiency, educational pursuits, world travel, and volunteerism were inspired to eventually create two companies that would provide effective and sustainable solutions to support social service organizations to improve risk mitigation, and educate people that are seeking to improve social issues in their communities.
She is the owner of Resolute Behavioral & Mental Health Risk Mitigation Services of Georgia, LLC (RBMHofGA)™. Resolute Behavioral & Mental Health Risk Mitigation Services of Georgia, LLC (RBMHofGA)™ is a medium-sized cloud-based risk mitigation company that specializes in mental and behavioral health evaluation performance, valuable recommendations, and consulting that assist in the operation of maintaining reliable infrastructure for the efficiency and assessment process of an entity in the areas of documentation, guidelines on supporting documents, policy and practice regulations, emergency and reserved audits™, and advocacy support. Resolute Behavioral & Mental Health Risk Mitigation Services, LLC is highly unique, as the company is not only the first risk mitigation firm in the county for mental and behavioral companies, but also available 24/7 and 365 days a year to accommodate businesses seeking services.
Over the past 24 years, Germika has worked tirelessly with more than 40 communities in the social and human services sector both domestically and overseas, and she is still committed to gaining experience. Currently, Germika challenged herself to go further and combine her focus to help improve local, state, and federal policies for various social issues in mental health, diversity, racism, and artificial intelligence in technology by sharing her expertise at numerous conferences, summits, and workshops. She is a eligible licensee as a clinical social worker (LCSW) to obtain her clinical license in the state of Virginia and an eligible licensee for the license master of social worker (LMSW) in the state of New York.
After graduating from Virginia Union University with a BA in Psychology, she committed to remaining engaged in the social service sector and completed the national service program of AmeriCorps VISTA to help alleviate poverty. While completing her master’s degree at NYU, she was selected for the elite program of the National Association of Social Work-NYC Chapter Undoing Racism Internship Program where she was responsible to facilitate, and organize workshops with New York-based schools of Social Work to organize a stronger anti-racist and anti-oppressive curriculums.
Furthering her public service endeavors, Germika ran for public office as a city councilwoman in her hometown of Richmond, VA. (9th district), while simultaneously completing VCU’s Minority Political Leadership Institute (MPLI)-Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute-L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs - Minority Political Leadership Institute of VCU and the Legislative Black Caucus Foundation. During her time in the MPLI program, she focused on critical issues involving minority communities such as community economics, political climate, civic engagement, policy, legislative processes, and equity. and equality.
During her tenure in the MPLI program, Germika's scholarly published peer review focused on The Establishment of Charter Schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Germika is also the founder of CIRCLE (Community Involvement to Remain Connected and Lead Effectively™) and CIRCLE+™ (Challenging Issues while Revitalizing Communities through Learning Experiences+ [for positive change]™ were developed as she witnessed a demanding need to create a two-component hierarchy, which entails community engagement and immediate training of the social issue selected. In addition to the latter of the CIRCLE engagement process, it also requires participants to create and develop training in their community, where this, in turn, will create: 1). participants to become a viable resource for their community and 2). to create a 'snowball effect' within communities among community leaders, organization partners, stakeholders, and the community overall. The overall goal is to dismantle stigmatizations that misinterpret and imply disproportionate information about social issues respectively.
CIRCLE focuses on service-oriented projects to organize and support the advancement of communities regarding the significance of social issues and social innovations for equality.
CIRCLE+ is the second component of CIRCLE, which encompasses immediate follow-up training related to the completed service project. Upon completion, volunteers are certified, as a CIRCLE+ Leader™. Members are guided and prepared with effective tools to encourage their efforts within communities and to implement, develop, and carry out sustainable solutions.
April 2024, Germika started her two-year term as a Riders' Advisory Council (RAC) Member with the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) in Atlanta, GA where she was selected based on the committees factors such as ridership habits, commuting experiences and community involvement. The RAC is an all-volunteer group of people from different backgrounds who live and work in metropolitan Atlanta and devote their time and energy to make MARTA better. The RAC is a major component of a long-term commitment to change the way MARTA conducts business and make the agency more responsive to customers.
Germika will enroll in a dual degree program in the fall of 2026 to obtain a JD and PhD. She aspires to become a public defender by focusing her JD in public interest law and her PhD on the conceptual model, development of human and social service policies, and community engagement to lessen mental health disparities among African-Americans.
