He teaches in the nation’s #1 programs in elementary and secondary education. He has over a decade of professional experience as a public school educator, and was founding math teacher of the Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men in Chicago, IL. His work has earned him numerous accolades including Abraham Lincoln Fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the 2014 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and he was chosen as the inaugural Carl Grant Visiting Scholar to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.