Desmond Williams

CEO, Nylinka School Solutions

I am a career educator having spent 18 marvelous years in K-12. I launched Nylinka School Solutions because of frustration over K-12's jettisoning of Black boys. Historically, teaching Black boys is based on pathologizing them. Nylinka's support for schools focuses on helping them discover how traditional education marginalizes and disenfranchises Black boys through apparent and not so apparent means, while helping teachers mine the greatness in Black boys. Nylinka will continue to build a suite of services that supports marginalized groups (Latino males, special education students, Black girls in STEM, children in poverty, etc.) Current services include: equity audits, bias-reduction trainings, restorative practices, and building instructional equity that supports all learners.

In 2022, I published The Burning House: Educating Black Boys in Modern America. This book articulates how racism works in schools and how Black and Latino boys become disenfranchised via system oppression.