Terence Lester is a minister, speaker, community activist, author, and founder of Love Beyond Walls, a not-for-profit organization focused on poverty awareness and community mobilization. His campaigns on behalf of the poor have been featured in USA Today and Black Enterprise, and on NBC and Upworthy, and have been viewed by millions of people globally. He recently published the book, I See You: How

Love Opens Our Eyes To Invisible People with InterVarsity Press. Love Beyond Walls was created as a hopeful response to a society building higher and higher walls. The organization focuses on telling the stories of those wrestling with homelessness with virtual reality and technology as a way of building empathy and changing the false narratives on homelessness.

Terence is representing Love Beyond Walls, a finalist in the 2019 Innovate for Good Challenge, as an organization applying new I.T. in the extended reality category.