Dr. Christopher Emdin is the Robert A. Naslund Endowed Chair in Curriculum Theory and Professor of Education at the University of Southern California; where he also serves as Director of youth engagement and community partnerships at the USC Race and Equity Center. He is also Scholar/Griot in Residence at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He previously served as Associate Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education and Director of the Science Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. The creator of the #HipHopEd social media movement and the Science Genius program, he is the author of the
New York Times bestseller
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too and
Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation. Connect with him on Twitter
@chrisemdin or on his website,
www.chrisemdin.com.
