Scott was born in St Joseph, Michigan, and raised in Matteson, Illinois. He has a college-age daughter.
He obtained a degree in Political Science from Roosevelt University in Chicago and a Computer Science degree from DeVry University, after having served in the Army as a US Paratrooper. Scott worked as an independent IT Migration Specialist in the Chicagoland area for about a decade before settling down the Chicago Public School as a Network Engineer.
He enjoys volunteering his time to different non-profits, equality advocate groups as well as speaking for adoption groups about multicultural adoptions from the Black male perspective as someone raised in a White family environment.
Scott has worked alongside the adoption communities for almost 20 years. Past experiences in the adoption field include working in culture groups, adoptee camps and leading panels on different topics addressing race, adoption and “surviving” the White experience as a Black child. He’s been heard on the radio and has been a presenter at YMCA culture camps. Specialty topics include transracial & racial conflicts in adoption, openness in adoption, the “angry adoptee” syndrome and adoption through the lifespan as an outspoken Black adult male POC. His scholarly interests include multiethnic identities , parental socialization in adoption and societal deconstruction of racial tensions in politics, economics and cultural identities.
Scott celebrates being a Biracial/Transracial adoptee and reconnected with his birth mother and family 46 years after having been adopted. His journey continues as he expands his interests of sharing the adoptive perspective with newer adopting families, growing adoption agencies and the need to bring greater awareness of the transracial adoptee experience for children, teens and adults.