Chris Carr

About Chris Carr

I am Chris Carr, an equity and diversity consultant, coach, and speaker. The purpose of my work is to re-humanize culture, and empower every employee to bring their authentic best to the workplace. My work is intentionally disruptive and confrontational and does not meet racists and sexists where they are. It is not performative and it\'s not a checklist of what to say in order to absolve anyone of responsibility. My method is inspired by my academic background and it is built on not only understanding race or identity formation in America, but about hegemony, power and oppression, and its influence on social and cultural dynamics.For the past 20 years, the fruits of my approach have been in building more equitable spaces in governmental organizations, academic institutions, and private businesses. Some of my work includes the introduction of EEO, title VII and title IX for Howard University’s General Counsel, educating the pre-IPO 400-people team at Bark Box to re-think its corporate culture, and introducing the concept of identity to the blockchain-platform Buffalo Trails, among many. In my work I build workshop session for HR, business, and management teams through three lenses: the legal, the pragmatic, and the moral human perspectives. I train HR teams on legal statutes that relate to protected classes, diversity, and workplace. I unpack with business teams the pragmatic side of diversity. It\'s been proven that companies with more diversity provide higher work satisfaction and outperform financially in comparison with homogenous cultures. I empower all company employees by providing language to propel difficult conversations and teach businesses to reconcile any conflicts that might arise.

Experience

1. Curating the Classroom & Educational Consultancy

   NYC Public Schools

   Aug 2016 — Present · NY, US

   Multi-tiered Approach to Enhancing CRE Worked with Frances Perkins Academy to implement an ongoing series of Socratic Seminars around issues of identity, equity, and diversity utilizing art as an entry point to discourse and research. Supported the transition of Frances Perkins Academy as it combined with Automotive High School to create one school community now known as A-Tech High School Designed and implemented a semester worth of professional development for the staff of A-Tech High School around issues of equity and diversity with a focus on: culturally relevant education, decolonized research and a multicultural interdisciplinary approach catalyzed by existential pedagogy. Collaborated on the development of a school culture that encourages scholasticism, solidarity and support for students who are often underserved by the public school system i.e. young black men and women, members of the school community they were queer and trans, and folks of various international origins. Presented a workshop and sat on a panel in Detroit at the COSEBOC conference, where we led presentations for national scholars, researchers, community workers and educators relating to equity in classrooms, the history of colonialism in education and how to provide new solutions to age old problems in terms of diversity, opportunity and student success.Developing an interdisciplinary education program rooted in the existential crisis and student driven education in the New York city public school system and have various teaching artist that go into high schools middle schools and afterschool programs

Education

• Columbia University

  Medieval Studies Master's Program

  2001 — 2003

• Morehouse College

  B.A., Sociology, Psychology, Religion

  1996 — 2001

Skills

• Image Editing
• Photography
• Brand Development
• Digital Media
• Creative Writing
• Copywriting
• Journalism
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Blogging
• Content Management
• Final Cut Pro
• Video Editing
• Digital Photography
• Image Manipulation
• Social Networking
• Social Media Marketing
• Film
• Video Production
• Photoshop
• Entertainment
• Mac
• Art
• Editing
• Public Relations
• Social Media
• Video
• Music
• Publishing
• Event Planning
• Creative Direction
• Advertising