Everton Blair Jr.

Everton Blair Jr., 28, is a member of the Gwinnett County Board of Education in Georgia, representing District 4. He assumed office in 2018. His current term ends in 2022.

Blair came out publicly on National Coming Out day in 2019 via a post on his personal Instagram.

Blair, a 2009 graduate of Shiloh High School, was already the youngest and first black person to be elected to the Gwinnett County Board of Education. He’s now the first openly LGBTQ member of the school board. Blair, who was elected in 2018, is one of several LGBTQ elected officials holding public office from Gwinnett County.

After graduating from Harvard, Blair moved back to Atlanta and taught Geometry, AP and Pre-Calculus at KIPP Atlanta Collegiate High School. Blair was the youngest teacher in the building and taught the first graduating class at KIPP. Under the leadership of his KIPP Through College team, they were able to get 99% of our seniors to graduate and be accepted to a 4-year college.

Once the founding class graduated, Blair transitioned out of the classroom but stayed in education, focused on how policies impact underserved students in large school systems. While getting his masters at Stanford, Blair worked with teachers in the Office of African American Male Achievement in Oakland to promote inter-subject collaboration to improve outcomes for Black male students in the district.

The following summer at the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence, Blair built on his experience in Oakland and focused on the importance of teacher diversity in our schools as one of many ways to increase teacher-student engagement.

With the change in federal administration, Blair spent the last year facilitating learning experiences and personalized support for superintendents and education CEOs in The Broad Academy. 

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Everton Blair, Gwinnett School Board, Comes Out, LGBT | wnep.com