title: Defying the Odds: Your Personal Guide to Victorious Living
author: Dr. Jamal Browne
description: Dr. Jamal Browne is a Writer, Keynote Speaker, Project Manager, and International Development Consultant. He is a former UN-Habitat Project Officer, and has served as a consultant on various national, regional and international projects on Land Administration, Land Governance, Urban Development &amp; Housing, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, and the Sustainable Development Goals. He is an Alumnus of the inaugural cohort of the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI), founded by President Barack Obama in April 2015.
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  Breaking Barriers
  
  Hart Medical Center 1
  
  Detective Jamal Tuma was used to life not going his way. As an omega in an
  alpha dominated world, he’d experienced more than his fair share of bigotry
  when he’d decided to enter the police force. His life had been put in danger
  more times than he could count for no other reason than alphas above him
  thought it wouldn’t matter if he’d died on the job. Yet, in the six years he’d
  been a cop, he’d never come quite so close to death as he did when an alpha
  doctor didn’t feel it necessary to treat his gunshot wound.
  
  Brace Jacobs had never given much thought to the omegas in their world. As a
  doctor, he’d taken an oath to heal, no matter their color, creed, sex, or even
  their omega status. But not everyone felt the way he did. It didn’t sit well
  with Brace, but he didn’t go out of his way to fix the problem, either. That
  was until Detective Jamal Tuma came through those doors and nearly died with
  Bra