Bio
Rai King is an educator, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and non-profit leader. Graduating from Spelman College with a degree in Early Childhood Development and from Arizona State University with a Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction, Rai was an elementary school teacher for 16 years. A teacher’s teacher, Rai often jokes that she has taught in every way possible to teach-from public, private, parochial, and charter schools, to homeschool, and even international school.
As a nonprofit leader, Rai served as the founding Equity and Learning Director for City Year New York. She also chairs the board of directors for a local Brooklyn nonprofit, Read 718 which specializes in providing one-on-one tutoring to low-income students.
In response to the Covid pandemic Rai recognized a major gap in kids’ enrichment opportunities and started her own nonprofit called Hands-In Learning-an education group that provided academic and arts classes to families all over the world regardless of their ability to pay.
In addition to being a wife, mother of 5, Rai is a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University.​