Michael Lawrence-Riddell is an award winning public school educator with twenty years of classroom experience. He founded Self-Evident education in September of 2019 because he wasn't finding teaching materials that addressed the urgent need for our society to honestly and rigorously engage in work to understand the histories and legacies of race and institutional racism. Michael's foundation as an African-American Studies major at Wesleyan University and as a teacher of American History also shapes his work.