A recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award in 2014, he has taught at NYU-SPS since 2000. He completed the Certificate Program in Mindfulness for Educators in 2013, and in 2015 joined its online teaching team through Antioch University New England. Also in 2015, he completed the Certificate in Mindfulness Facilitation Program at UCLA’s Semel Institute. And in 2017, he was certified by the Mindfulness Training Institute to teach mindfulness courses and workshops. Following twenty years in practice as a chiropractor, Black has been a Learning Specialist at Winston Preparatory School since 2005, where, in his role as a Focus Teacher, he works one-on-one with learning-challenged middle and high school students and guides mindfulness practices in the classroom and for faculty.