Mike "Orie" Mosley

Mike "Orie" Mosley was most recently a social media associate for Education Post. Orie also contributes to websites such as TheGrio.com, TheRoot.com and CurlyNikki.com where he focuses on writing editorial and news-style content highlighting positive African-American culture. He has also served as a social media manager for CurlyNikki.com. Orie is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago and holds a master of arts in higher education administration from Louisiana State University. Raised in St. Louis, he is a Cardinals fan and a lover of St. Louis-style pizza.

Posts By Mike "Orie" Mosley

whole child

Indianapolis School District Uses Food Truck to Give Thousands of Students Free Lunch

For some kids in Indianapolis, access to quality food doesn't seem to be an option during the summertime. It's why the Indianapolis Public School District (IPS) has launched an initiative to change...

anti-racism

How Two Black Male Educators Made the Forbes 30 Under 30

Jason Terrell and Mario Jovan Shaw met through the 2012 Teach For America Corps and lived together as roommates. Frustrated with the lack of Black male teachers, they started a non-profit called...

anti-racism

WATCH: This New Jersey Teen Was Just Accepted Into All 8 Ivy League Schools

17-year-old Ifeoma White-Thorpe has been accepted to all 8 Ivy League schools and Stanford. "Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton and Stanford," said Thorpe, who...

School Discipline

My Former School District Just Made Fighting a Felony, and Here's the Problem

In 2006, I graduated from Hazelwood Central High School in St. Louis County. Up until I turned 16, and later sometimes to save on gas money, I remember taking the bus everyday from the neighborhood I...

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