Curtis M

Curtis spent the last nine years as a teacher in the High-Intensity Practice (HIP) Thinking program at Avenues New York. Working primarily with middle school students, Curtis created and taught classes designed to have students develop their executive functioning and thinking skills. Curtis also taught an Anthropology elective to 11th and 12th Graders, and previously taught STEAM/Science to the 7th Grade. Prior to working at Avenues, Curtis worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Medgar Evers College, as a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University, and as a Course Assistant for the Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate. He has also worked as an instructor for the College Now program at Medgar Evers and as an instructor for the Education Program for Gifted Youth at Stanford University. He has several years of experience in the education and non-profit fields, working at the Guggenheim Museum, and the the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Learning Technology Center. He has also worked with the Kenya Human Rights Commission in Nairobi where he was attached to the Task Force on the Establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. Curtis earned his PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University, where he did his research on Kenya’s constitutional reform process. He is a graduate of Williams College, where he majored in theater and film, and of Harvard Law School where he served as a Student Attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau providing legal services to indigent clients, as the Executive Technical Editor of the Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice (formerly the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal), and as the Vice Chair of the Lincoln’s Inn Society. He is also a graduate of the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.