Nick Lowery is a modern-day renaissance man: KC Chiefs All-Time leading scorer and Hall of Famer, the first professional athlete with a Masters from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, White House Aide to 3 Presidents, poet, and remarkable founder of multiple generational impact community service programs for Inner City youth, for the Homeless, for Native youth and for the disabled. Nick worked before and during his NFL career for 4 US Senators, and in 3 NFL off-seasons in the White House, launching the Points of Light Foundation for HW Bush and Americorps for Bill Clinton – both programs dedicated to President John F Kennedy’s legendary vision of tapping into the fundamental leadership and contribution in all human beings: “Ask not what your country can do for you; Ask what you can do for your country.” He was nominated by and worked for a fourth US President, W Bush, as Founding Director and then Chairman of the National Fund for American Indian Education, testifying twice before Congress.
Nick was NFL Man of the Year 5 times for the KC Chiefs and NY Jets, and won the NFL Players Association’s foremost humanitarian award, the Justice Byron Whizzer White Award. “Kick With Nick’ won the National United Cerebral Palsy Award for his work bringing awareness and $1 Million for UCP. Nick founded Native Vision, a sports mentoring program with the NFL Players Association and Johns Hopkins for thousands of Native youth, featured on Oprah. Nick today leads Champions for the Homeless, comprising 71 inspiring events over 18 years serving over 110,000 Phoenix’ homeless, putting a human face on the homeless in ways rarely seen in other large cities, and made Phoenix the first city to provide free Covid testing for the homeless in 2020.
Nick’s passion today is ending the epidemic of Alzheimers and Dementia, working with Alzheimers Treatment Centers of America (www.ATCA.ai) to uniquely marry the highest levels of Artificial Intelligence with a precision medical team. Nick’s mother and brother died with Dementia and Alzheimers. Nick’s other focus is with Massive Blue, which uses cutting edge AI to catch Fentanyl and Human Traffickers (www.MassiveBlue.ai).
Nick’s message is born from 11 rejections by 8 NFL teams to becoming the most accurate kicker in NFL History from 1980-1997. He believes each of us has unique God-given gifts, and the journey in Life is to discover & master those gifts so that we can help others do the same to build a better world.