Ryan received his BA in English Education from Western Michigan University, his MA in Educational Leadership from Michigan State, and is a Nationally Board Certified teacher. He has participated in a variety of professional educational experiences including a Fulbright-Hayes exchange to Senegal and presentations to the National Council of Teacher’s of English. Ryan’s antiracism development began and continues within the context of the organizing work of Crossroads and ERAC/CE. Ryan also coaches Kalamazoo Central’s woman’s tennis team and is the co-owner of Two Birds Artisan Spirits, an artisanal distillery based in Southwest Michigan. An avid home-brewer, vintner, writer, reader, outdoors man, cook, traveler, and tennis player, Ryan makes his home in Kalamazoo, MI with his partner Joy.