Lori Taliaferro-Riddick

Lori Taliaferro-Riddick is an instructional leader who works within school communities to bring an antiracist lens to teaching and learning. She most recently served as the Managing Director of Schools for DREAM in New York where she led a network of schools in East Harlem and the South Bronx. Prior to her work with DREAM, Lori co-founded Raising Race Conscious Children, and led workshops with school leaders, teachers, and families on how to talk about race with young children. Lori spent five years working as the Executive Director of Leadership Development for Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Prior to that, Lori supported principal supervisors in the Recovery School District (RSD) of New Orleans, Bridgeport Public Schools, and Newark Public Schools, and supported district initiatives to implement new principal evaluation modeled in the RSD and Los Angeles Unified School District. As a part of New Leaders, where Lori worked for seven years, she led district level human capital consulting initiatives and developed principal evaluation rubrics for New Leaders, Louisiana, Illinois, and leadership standards for Texas, RSD, Los Angeles Unified, and Newark Public Schools. Lori led a five year qualitative research project resulting in a framework, The Transformational Leadership Playbook. She coauthored Great Principals at Scale: Creating District Conditions that Enable all Principals to be Effective, and Playmakers: How Great Principals Build and Lead Great Teams of Teachers. Lori is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a B.A. in Urban Studies and a Masters of Science in Education.