Kumar Rashad serves as the Vice President of Jefferson County Teachers Association in Louisville KY. He has been a public high school math teacher for over 20 years and was recently named Kentucky’s 2024 High School Teacher of the Year. He is a proud local, state, and national union leader as the Ethnic Minority Director for the National Council of Urban Education Association.
Mr. Rashad has spent over 20 years in the classroom where he specializes in mentoring minority males. This passion for leading minority youth led him in the pursuit of recruiting minority teachers through a non-profit he and his wife Natalie Rashad created called the Minority Teacher Recruitment Movement. This project was adopted by the National Education Association and replicated throughout the United States.
He's a staunch advocate for the eradication of systemic racism by demanding fair representation on all political levels. Mr. Rashad also served a term as a Louisville Metro Council Member for the metropolitan area of Louisville, Kentucky. In this role he helped pass laws that gave more flexibility to city government work hours for employees to accommodate public school schedules. He also helped pass a law to help stop displacement and homelessness from gentrification.
Mr Rashad is a champion of democracy and i its tenements which include freedom, justice, equity, and representation.