Khari J. Milner

Khari Milner has worked with children and young adults for more than fifteen years. His diverse experiences include positions as a high school math teacher, a director of a teen job program, and a director of a summer transition program for rising ninth graders. He directs a non-profit called Cornerstone Foundation for Youth Leadership Development, Inc., and has directed a community-based youth empowerment program called the Survival & Technology Workshops for more than nine years. He is currently the manager of Cambridge’s 21st CCLC Partnership.

Milner has been a trainer of teachers, youth workers and administrators both in public school systems and for community youth workers. He has developed mathematics and problem solving curriculum as well as units on self-identity, self-empowerment and community assessment projects.

Milner is a board member of the math literacy organization and the Algebra Project, Inc. He spent two years in Jackson, Mississippi, running a math lab and working with youth, families, teachers, administrators and community stake holders on efforts to reform education practices in the public middle schools. He has also worked with CHASE (Child Health and Social Ecology Program), an international children’s rights project connected to the Harvard University Medical School; he has traveled to Tanzania and Costa Rica as their consultant.

Milner is native of Cambridge, MA, where he graduated from CRLS in 1990. In addition, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1994), and a Master’s Degree in Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education (1998).