Samuel Reed III is a 2025-2026 Philadelphia Affinity Group Network Facilitator and veteran educator, entrepreneur, and mentor. He supports students, educators, and entrepreneurs through coaching, strategic planning, and program design that centers education, innovation and equity. Samuel served as a teacher-researcher with Research for Action’s Black Educator Pilot Participatory Action Research Project and was an inaugural member of Airbnb’s Host Advisory Board. A former U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana, he co-founded Logical Solutions. Samuel is founding educator at The U School in Philadelphia, Teacher Consultant with the Philadelphia Writing Project, and Digital Discourse and AI in Education Teacher Researcher with the National Writing Project. He also serves on the board of the Movement Alliance Project and is recipient of the City of Philadelphia’s Illuminate the Arts Grant (2022). Samuel has an MBA and MEd.
