Marc D Barnhill

Marc Barnhill is a school founder and antiracism worker who teaches Writing, Critical Thinking, and African American Literature at The City University of New York and at New York University. A New York Cares team leader, he runs children’s art and literacy projects in Harlem and facilitates workshops and events with various educational and social-justice organizations.

An alumnus of the Brooklyn College Scholars Program and the CUNY Graduate Center, Prof. Barnhill has worked with learners of all ages and skill levels. As a Graduate Teaching Fellow focusing on antiracism and urban education, he created the Kingsborough Interactive Newsletter Project, trained student volunteers in culturally conscious peer tutoring practices, and taught academic readiness skills to young children in the College For Kids program. Joining New York City's alternative-schools movement, he designed the Empowerment Literacy curriculum at School for the Physical City, arranged and supervised high school internships focused on economic and social justice, and taught Expeditionary Learning classes in linguistics, literature and cultural studies to some of the most diverse student populations in New York City. He was a member of the first New Visions New Century High Schools Initiative leadership cohort, and co-founded Bronx Guild High School in partnership with Outward Bound.

Prof. Barnhill has taught Humanities courses for NYU's School of Professional Studies, worked with the International Student Support Center, and designed and taught online courses for both the Writing and Critical Thinking programs of the Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies. He ran the five-year Advanced Composition Recitation and field-tested and refined Dream Careers Undergraduate and High School Internship courses for the Office of Leadership and Management Studies. As a CUNY General Education Fellow, he oversaw the integration of Reasoning and Analysis skills into Bronx Community College's composition and rhetoric courses, and he has served as CUNY Proficiency Exam Liaison, organizer of the Freethought in Black History and Culture forum, and Faculty Advisor to the BCC Secular Humanist Club.

Prof. Barnhill has also served as Board President of the NYC branch of the Center For Inquiry, collaborated on projects with educational institutions (The Rockefeller University, The New York Academy of Sciences, The Young Women’s Leadership Schools) and social justice organizations (Women’s March Alliance, Harlem Humanists, Racial Justice BK, Upper East Side for Black Lives Matter), worked on the Organizing Committee of the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, led the semimonthly NYC Metacognitive Brunch discussion group, and created and produced the Skeptical Connections podcast.