A life shaped by Harlem, purpose, spiritual inquiry, and a mission to help people see beyond limitation.
Brief Biography
Quintin Jerome Ballentine was born on January 8, 1988, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York, New York, and was raised in Harlem, New York City. From an early age, those around him believed that God had His hand on his life and that he was destined to do meaningful work that could help many people.
Often described as an outsider and independent thinker, Quintin has long challenged conventional ideas, beliefs, and structures that he believed were unjust or unfair to certain groups of people. His worldview has been shaped by his Harlem upbringing, his mixed heritage, and his commitment to dignity, opportunity, and reform.
He is of mixed race, with an African American mother and a father of Puerto Rican descent. His identity, education, and lived experience inform his passion for mental health reform and his belief that communities such as Harlem, as well as disadvantaged areas throughout the country, deserve access to information, resources, and opportunities that can potentially change the direction of their lives.
Quintin holds a bachelor’s degree in forensic psychology, serves as a life coach, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in clinical psychology to further develop his skills and deepen his ability to help others.
Mission Statement
Quintin’s mission is to help expose people in Harlem and other underserved communities to life-changing information, spiritual insight, psychological awareness, cultural knowledge, and practical tools for personal growth.
Through MAKE HARLEM GREAT AGAIN, his writing, educational projects, nonprofit vision, and community-centered work, he seeks to build a bridge between mental health, spirituality, science, cultural empowerment, and economic development.
His goal is to create platforms that encourage people to think more deeply, heal more honestly, build more intentionally, and recognize the power already present within themselves and their communities.
Work, Vision, and Future Projects
Quintin is the founder of the Majic Foundation for Global Development, a nonprofit initiative that he hopes to expand in the years ahead. He is also pursuing non-governmental organization recognition with the United Nations as part of a larger vision for global service, education, and development.
A mystic by nature and an occult scientist by training, Quintin believes that religion, spirituality, and science can coexist — and that they should coexist in the pursuit of human understanding, healing, and transformation.
This belief is one of the reasons he created this platform: to open a space where people can explore meaning, knowledge, psychology, community uplift, and the deeper mysteries of life without being forced to choose between faith, reason, culture, and personal experience.
Upcoming Book
More details about Quintin’s life, journey, philosophy, and mission will be shared in his upcoming book, Finding Majic, which is expected to be released first as an eBook and made available for online purchase later this year.
The book will explore personal transformation, spiritual searching, inner conflict, purpose, identity, and the lessons learned through struggle, faith, study, and survival.
Personal Roots
Quintin has three siblings and continues to live in Harlem, New York City. His work remains deeply connected to the place that shaped him — its people, its struggles, its brilliance, its history, and its future.
His life and platform are rooted in the belief that Harlem is not merely a location, but a living symbol of resilience, creativity, intelligence, and rebirth.
Contact / Booking InquiryTo every person who has ever felt overlooked, misunderstood, underestimated, or left outside the gates of opportunity: your life still carries meaning. Your pain can become wisdom. Your difference can become power. Your struggle can become the very foundation of your purpose. Harlem teaches us that beauty can rise from pressure, genius can emerge from hardship, and a people who remember who they are can rebuild anything.
Keep learning. Keep healing. Keep questioning. Keep building. Keep believing that your life can become evidence that transformation is possible.