Derick Bowers is the executive director of GoodTemps—the nonprofit staffing agency of Goodwill Industries® of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey, which helps over 500 temporary workers, most of them people with disabilities, on to meaningful work each day.

Bowers has over a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector, specializing in social enterprise and workforce development. He is the former New York City regional director of social enterprise at the Center for Employment Opportunities, where he oversaw the organization’s largest transitional workforce program, providing immediate paid employment and daily pay for New Yorkers whom the criminal legal system had directly impacted. Bowers also held a substantial role at The Doe Fund, where he created work and training opportunities for men experiencing homelessness.

Bowers received his bachelor of arts in communications from Howard University. He is an alumnus of the Coro New York Leadership Program and the Senior Leaders Program for Nonprofit Professionals at Columbia Business School. Additionally, he received City & State’s “New York’s Labor 40 Under 40” Award in 2021.