Please join us in welcoming our Education Policy Panelists to Duke Sanford and Durham, NC!

Rhianna Scyster  

Community Equity and Policy Manager at 904Ward

Rhianna currently serves as the Community Equity and Policy Manager at 904WARD, a non-profit with a vision to “end systemic racism so all people thrive.” In her current role, Rhianna leads the organization’s policy and advocacy initiative, which is primarily focused on civic engagement, youth mental health, education disparities, economic justice, and juvenile justice.

In 2020 she was awarded the Nat Glover Policy Fellowship from Jacksonville University, where she earned her Master’s in Public Policy, with a research focus of disproportionate discipline of Black students in Florida’s schools. In 2024, Rhianna furthered her conference presentation skills by presenting at the National Education AssociationConference on Racial and Social Justice. In 2024, Rhianna received the OneJax Humanitarian Acost-Rua Young Professional’s Award as the 6th recipient of this award in award history. Most recently, Rhianna was recognized by University of North Florida’s Alumni Association and received the 2025 Young Alumni Achievement Award.

Rhianna is honored to serve as a board member for The Sanctuary on 8th Street, a Board Service Fellow for Jacksonville Public Education Fund, and founder of the Jacksonville Policy Engagement Group (JPEG), a small group of public policy professionals dedicated to informing their local community on policy initiatives. Rhianna continues to remain dedicated to improving her community through social justice, policy advocacy, and servant leadership.

Dr. Ronda Taylor Bullock 

Executive Director, WE ARE (Working to extend anti-racist education)

Ronda Taylor Bullock is originally from Goldston, NC. She earned her doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill in the Policy, Leadership, and School Improvement Program. Her research interests are critical race theory, whiteness studies, white children’s racial identity construction, and anti-racism. Some of her publications include Racial Identity Construction: A Critical Analysis of White Children Recognizing, Reifying, and Resisting Whiteness, Raising Conscious Kids: A Community-based Approach, and Challenging White-washed Curriculum: A Critical Race Theory Approach.

Dr. Taylor Bullock is the co-founder and Lead Curator (Executive Director) of we are, which stands for working to extend anti-racist education. As a non-profit, we are provides anti-racism training for children, parents and educators. we are uses a three-pronged approach to dismantle systemic racism in education and beyond by offering summer camps for children in rising 1st-5th grade, workshops for families, and professional development for educators.

Prior to starting we are, Dr. Taylor Bullock taught English for almost ten years at Hillside High School in Durham, NC, where she now resides. She is the wife of Dr. Daniel Kelvin Bullock and mother of son Zion and daughter Zaire.

Harold Jordan

Education Equity Coordinator at the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania

Harold Jordan is Nationwide Education Equity Coordinator at the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Beyond Zero Tolerance: Discipline and Policing in Pennsylvania Schools, co-author of Cops and No Counselors: How the Lack of School Mental Health Staff is Harming Students, co-author of Student Arrests in Allegheny County Schools: The Need for Transparency and Accountability, and the editor of Know Your Rights: A Handbook for Public School Students in Pennsylvania. Mr. Jordan serves on the professional advisory board of the Learning Disabilities Association of America. Past leadership roles include serving on the coordinating committee of the national Dignity in Schools Campaign, chairing the board of the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, a nonprofit news service reporting on the city’s public schools, and directing a national youth program at the American Friends Service Committee. Mr. Jordan participated in the 2015 White House Rethink Discipline Summit.

Mr. Jordan is also the recipient of the Education Law Center’s Education Champion Award and the Marcienne and Herman Mattleman Award for Excellence in Public Education. He holds a degree in social thought and analysis from Washington University in St. Louis.