Sam Seidel is the Director of the Student Experience Lab at the Business Innovation Factory and a Scholar-in-Residence at Columbia University’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education. He is the author of Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education.

Sam speaks internationally about innovative solutions to challenges facing schools, community organizations, and prisons. Sam has taught in a variety of settings from first grade to community college, and directed programs for young people affected by incarceration. As a consultant, Sam has worked with a number of national education organizations, including the Black Alliance for Educational Options, Big Picture Learning, and Jobs for the Future, as well as a spectrum of other clients on a diverse set of projects, ranging from redesigning a statewide juvenile justice system to working with the Rockefeller family to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Sam was the Director of Partnerships for the Association for High School Innovation, a national network of school developers funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He now serves on the boards of AS220, the Criminal Justice Initiative, and Resource Generation. Sam holds a degree in Education from Brown University.

He is always learning.

• @husslington
• hiphopgenius.org
• businessinnovationfactory.com/sxl