TAMIR HARPER

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UNITED STATES, 20

Project: UrbED
Focus Area: School to Prison Pipeline / Student Advocacy

At age 20, Tamir is a speaker, reformer and an outspoken advocate for public education. He is the co-founder and chief of UrbEd Inc. – a student-led nonprofit that advocates for quality and efficient urban education.

Tamir represents students in underserved and underfunded schools across the United States by consulting with school districts, serving on Philadelphia’s Youth Commission, and speaking frequently at education conferences. His advocacy has granted him the opportunity to meet First Lady Michelle Obama and to sit on a panel for the U.S. Department of Education on teacher diversity. His work has been featured in the Washington Post, TIME Magazine and Newsy.

Tamir is a proud education nerd. A product of the School District of Philadelphia, he is now a junior at the American University in Washington D.C. At American, Tamir is part of the award-winning Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholars Program, while studying Strategic Communications with a minor in Education. 

More: www.urbedadvocates.org
Instagram: @urbedadvocates

“I’ve seen the good, bad and ugly of the school district of Philadelphia so we brought together like-minded youth to really become disruptors of urban education.”