Akil Parker

Akil Parker is a Black man playing his part by teaching math to anybody who will listen either in-person, virtually or on YouTube. He is the founder and CEO of All This Math, an educational services company with a mission to improve the relationship between math and the Black community. He provides physical and online math resources for parents, youth and math teachers. In addition to the All This Math YouTube channel, he has written a math resource guidebook for parents and guardians entitled, 'How To Use All This Math, Volume 1'. One of his major initiatives is to help empower parents to feel comfortable and confident in assisting their children with math homework in order to improve student math outcomes.

Akil Parker currently is an adjunct professor at Cheyney University where he teaches math courses such as Elementary Algebra and Math Methods for Teachers. He has been a math teacher for the past 20 years in Philadelphia and beyond in the classroom, as well as in virtual spaces. He has nearly 200 podcast/radio show appearances in an attempt to re-brand mathematics in a more positive light and has been featured in multiple magazine and newspaper articles regarding his work.

He is also the father of 3 wonderful children that have greatly inspired his math instruction over the years. Mr. Parker is a firm believer in mathematics being a conduit for the development of highly necessary problem solving skills and critical thinking ability which can ultimately improve humanity overall.