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Stephen Ritz On Transforming The Bronx & Generations of Kids By Turning His Classroom Into A Farm
Insurgent educator Stephen Ritz is truly one of the most inspiring game changers I have ever met. A South Bronx elementary school teacher and administrator, he has faced and overcome tremendous bureaucratic, political, and socio-economic odds to catapult generations of young, underprivileged at-risk students to unimaginable academic success and upwardly mobile employment — all while simultaneously reclaiming and rebuilding the Bronx from the inside out.
The modality leveraged to serve this end? Food. Specifically, growing food.
The personification of triple bottom line values and a staunch…
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