Ryan Parker

Ryan T. Parker's mission is to disrupt oppressive legacy embedded in educational spaces and to influence and empower educators and youth to also engage in the disruption. Parker’s 20 year career in teaching has been dedicated towards challenging United States education norms, reimagining what school looks, sounds and feels like through a justice lens and applying that reimagination to his own pedagogy while influencing and supporting other educators in doing the same. A youth empowerment activist and a Race & Equity Coordinator who presents regularly at education conferences and various schools and universities abroad, Parker’s work focuses on race in education, the power of hip hop pedagogy and the necessity of centering Black and Brown youth amplifying their lived experiences, voices and brilliance! In addition to his work as an educator, Parker is a hip hop artist/poet, author, husband, father, brother, mama’s boy, and chocolate chip cookie lover.