Meet Our Founder
Native to Clemson SC and extremely community-oriented, Brother Ja’El reawakened with the vision of NuHealth NuWealth during the 3rd week of course modules assigned by Aboriginal University. In the fall Semester of 2019, Ja’El , formerly known as Brandon J. Galloway aka “BJ”, began the notion to pause his studies at South Carolina State University (HBCU) as a Civil Engineering Technology major. Spring of 2020 was his last semester enrolled at SCSU as he completed the level 2 certification for the Indigenous Naturopathic Doctor (C.I.N.D) Certification Program with the Aboriginal Medical Association.
Dr. Ja’El’s specialty is in BioMolecular Nutrition, Indigenous Food Science, and Carbon-Based Agriculture. In the summer of 2023, Ja’El was awarded the certificate of completion for a Juris Doctor(J.D.) and credentialed to cooperate and serve as a Diplomatic Ambassador and Clerk of Court for the Aboriginal Republic of North America.(ARNA is a federally acknowledged tribal government for American descendants of slavery (ADOS), so-called African Americans, and those were reclassified as negro, colored, black,etc .
As a vessel of truth, light, and love, Ja’El has been intentionally GHETTO since 2016, Gathering Higher Education To Teach Others, creating and sharing opportunities and platforms for those around him to experience an elevated perspective and become the Light of Change for themselves and their community. Formerly known as Brandon “BJ'“ Galloway, Ja’El enrolled at South Carolina State University (SCSU), a Historically Black College/University(HBCU) in Orangeburg, SC in 2014. Toward the end of his sophomore year at SCSU and after serving as Project Director for the Executive Board of the Student Government Association. Ja’El chartered his own student organization, The Environmental Action Club (EAC).
EAC would immediately shift campus and community culture by spearheading Going Green Initiatives, like initiating a recycling program and hosting Eat Well. Live Well workshops, along with discussing Environmental Justice by taking students across the nation to attend conferences and organizational trainings.
In 2017 Ja’El recieved nomination by Defend Our Future to be honored and awarded as Congressional Honoree for Civic and Community Engagement at the 2017 Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference in Washington D.C.
That following spring EAC was building organic food gardens at surrounding local schools in the Orangeburg Community, in partnership with the Regional Medical Center.
At this time Ja’El won an Ag-entrepreneurship competition hosted by the University’s School of Business and used the $1500 award to purchase materials to start the Organic Food Garden on Campus. They would also receive sponsorship/contributions from Lowes and Department Head Chairs on that Grand Day Announcement opening to the public. (SCSU is originally an Agriculture and Mechanical Land Grant Institution and since their AG program was eliminated in the ’60s after Civil Rights, there was nothing representative of such institutional purpose except for a graduate program in Ag-Business up until the start of this garden.)
As this was unfolding, Ja’El was selected to showcase his work as a capstone project as an Environmental Justice Academy Scholar with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at the 2019 White House Initiative for HBCU’s in collaboration with the USDA along with students from other HBCUs.
Initiating the Campus Recycling program at SCSU lead him to work with a Chemistry professor as a Research Analyst within the 1890 Research & Extension program, where he would present his Research on Post Consumabe Plastics at conferences, scholarship competitions, and also make to make a publication.
Inspiring like minds along the way, his passions, studies, and impacts have all been seeded out of servant leadership.
In addition to being an example for others in his community, through collaboration and allyship, Ja’El is adamant about #BecomingTheChange he wishes to see in his community as well as fishing out higher education and resources to do so to share with others.
His vision to evolve the community begins with cellph. The mission is:
to collaboratively curate inspiration
using experiential learning
that ultimately disrupts the exploitation of culture in the absence of Cellph Awareness institutionalized by ignorances of systematic oppression; economically, socio-politically, and in health.
