“The Antiracist School Leader offers real-life stories that provide clear and specific examples of antiracist leadership. It provides a development and system approach to change in schools. This book is a great resource for emerging and practicing school and district leaders.”

“This book is rich with theory and frameworks. It has the potential to make a significant impact on schools and communities if dissected and followed. I am elated that the author is elevating this body of knowledge and moving to disrupt the current culture of racism.”

“All students need educational leaders to understand the urgency for equitable and antiracist spaces. They need us to follow that understanding with actions. If you want to grow from knowing about antiracism to doing, you must read The Antiracist School Leader.”

Daman Harris has been a public educator for a quarter of a century, and he has served in myriad roles. Since 2022, he has been the manager of higher education partnerships in a Maryland school district. He is a former principal and a certified reading specialist and special education instructor with experience in academic support, student discipline, community outreach, technical assistance, and program evaluation. He has performed classroom observations, designed and supervised student programs, conducted staff development, implemented crisis intervention, and evaluated schools and school-based programs as a consultant.
Additionally, Harris has served as adjunct faculty for McDaniel College and the University of Maryland at College Park since 2015, and for the University of Maryland Global Campus since 2023; there, he teaches courses related to effective teaching methods, conducting research, and cultural proficiency. His students at the university level are typically graduate students looking to earn teaching licenses and current educators learning to establish more equitable and culturally responsive environments where they live and work.
Harris is also the cofounder and coleader of the Building Our Network of Diversity (BOND) Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making schools better places through supporting efforts to recruit, retain, develop, and empower men of color in education. He hosts BOND’s podcast, the BONDCast, which features Black and Latino male educators and uses long-form interviews to discuss how they became educators and what drives them to continue.
Through conference presentations and consulting workshops, Harris speaks to groups all around the United States about strategies to acquire and maintain a diverse teaching workforce. To that end, he has promoted the cultivation of antiracist environments in school buildings and districts, drawing on his former role as a building administrator leader, when he practiced the principles of this text with his school community. Harris currently promotes antiracist environments in his role as district program manager within the division dedicated to professional development, for which he designs and facilitates a continuing education course that supports aspiring antiracist school leaders.
Harris earned his PhD in education policy from the University of Maryland at College Park with a focus on parent involvement in schools.