Social Father Presence: The Experience of Being Raised by Black Social Fathers by Serie McDougal, III mcdougal@sfsu.edu Department of Africana Studies, San Francisco State University Co-Director, Afrometrics Research Institute Eric Durnell Aerendir Mobile Inc. & Precious Zamaswazi Dlamini zamaswazidlaminip@gmail.com, pdlamini@gaudenzia.org Gaudenzia, Inc.; South African Achievers Program Philadelphia, Philadelphia Serie McDougal, III is an Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies, in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. He is also the director of the Black Unity Center at SF State. He received his B.S. in Sociology from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Additionally, he has an M.A. in Africana Studies from the State University of New York at Albany, a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; he is also the co-director of the Afrometrics Research Institute. Eric Durnell is a social research and outreach analyst at Aerendir Mobile Inc.; and a former outreach coordinator for Project Rebound at San Francisco State University. Precious Z. Dlamini is a mental health and substance use counselor at a dual diagnosis substance use treatment center unit located at Gaudenzia Inc (New Image Women and Children), a drug or alcohol rehabilitation center with a primary focus on mental health and substance abuse treatment based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She a B.A. in Accounting, a B.A. in Biology with a Psychology minor, and a Master of Public Health degree, and she is also the president and founder of the South African Achievers Program, a non-profit organization whose aim is to provide international educational opportunities to Black underprivileged youth of South Africa. 1 Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.11, no.7, May 2018