Albert (AL) Lucas is the Director of Legislative Services for the Board of Alders in New Haven, Connecticut where in 1998 he was the first African American and the youngest person to be appointed to this chief of staff position.   He is often featured as a motivational speaker especially for, to, and about urban youth as well as voting and political affairs. He is also certified in mental health first aid and sexual harassment prevention.

 

He is an alumnus of St. George’s School in Newport, Rhode Island and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (Branford College) and has received numerous awards and honors for his decades of service to the New Haven and wider African American community including: Leadership Greater New Haven, Yale University's Seton Elm-Ivy Award, Lifetime Service Awards from chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,  Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and St. Luke’s Steel Band,. He was the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale's first Janifer Lighten Outstanding Alumni AACOLADES Award recipient, and their 50th Anniversary’s Revolution Award Recipient, the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress Community Service Award  and was the 2015 Grand Marshal of the New Haven Freddy Fixer Parade, the Elm City Club of Black Professional Women’s 2024 Man of the Year and a 2025 honoree of both the United House of Prayer for All People, and the Varick A.M.E. Zion Church.

 

He is a former board of member of  the  Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, Dwight Hall at Yale, the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, Students United for the Rebirth of Excellence, 1000 Black Men of Greater New Haven, the Phelps Association, and the Greater New Haven NAACP where his also a life member.

 

A man of first, he was a founder and first President of the New Haven Pan Hellenic Council,  a founder and first Board Chairman of the Young Voices Initiative  teen leadership program, first Board Chair of Fathers In Education, first president of the Yale Black Alumni Association's Connecticut Chapter, a founder of the Empowering Black Boys Initiative,  and a founder of Cul- De-Sac a private consulting group for student leadership and non-profit development and the Connecticut Association of Black Democratic Clubs.

 

He is also a member of the Community Liaison Board for the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) study,  the Crispus Attucks League, and  the Amistad Chapter of Blacks In Government where his also a life member, an interviewer for the Yale Alumni Schools Committee, and the A Better Chance Program, a charter member of the St. George’s School Alumni Board of Visitors, a member of the Yale Advisory Committee on Community Policing, a certified parliamentarian, a champion football coach and a five time championship coach and the current commissioner of the New Haven Midnight Basketball Association and a Coach Robert Saulsbury Association Award Recipient. He is as a member of the St. George’s School Alumni of Color, the Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church in New Haven, X2theL and Nxt2theL.Com online music portal, the New Haven Chapter of the committee for Veterans Legal Redress and the New Haven Youth Sports Association.