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Mathu Ater
Professor Mathu Ater is an architect an Egyptologist. Background: BA, MA (Pepperdine University), NOMA (National Organization of Minority Architects, Los Angeles chapter) Mathu was an 11 year architectural apprentice to the late, Lester Oliver Bankhead, Architect and has been a student of Dr. Yosef A. Aben-Jochannan since 1981; he made his first trip to Kemet/Egypt with Dr.Ben in 1985. He was present at ASCAC's 1st conference in Los Angeles in 1984 and was among the over 1000 brothers and sisters to travel back to Kemet for the Historical 4th conference of 1987. Mathu Ater is uniquely qualified to speak on architectural and religious themes as his over 25 years as an architectural and graphic media specialist facilitates a fresh and uncommon approach to the study of Egyptology and History. He has lectured for such noted community organizations, as The S.C.L.C., The Urban League, The Nation of Islam, The National Society of Black Engineer's, The Council of Negro Women and The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC). He has also lectured, coast to coast, at many of the nation's leading colleges and universities. This includes the Black colleges at Howard, Tuskegee, Alabama State, and North Carolina A&T University. He's lectured at many West Coast Universities as well - UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, UC Riverside, UC Irvine and just about all the Cal State Universities in Southern California. He along with Ashra Kwesi where among the founders "African Minds United" in Los Angeles during the 1980's; this was an organization that was founded largely because of the efforts of Dr. Yosef A. A. ben-Jochannan. During those times Mathu Ater taught at the University of California at Irvine a class entitled, "The Glory of the Black Race". Mathu is a resident scholar at the KRST Unity Center of African Spiritual Science in Los Angeles. Mathu has designed and worked on many building around Los Angeles. He worked on a recording studio for legendary rapper Snoop Dogg and he also designed the current home of the producer of the legendary and iconic film "Boy's in the Hood", John Singleton.

Personal Life Mathu Ater was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He's the son of Dearce Johnson and Olivia Shakelford. He has an older sister and younger brother who passed away in 2012. He was married in 1983 to Sherry Ater and they had two children, Tamerri and Taharqa. Sherry passed away in 1998 leaving Mathu as a single father to raise his 2 children who were then 11 and 13.