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Candice Renee Person

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Founder and Chief Learning Strategist

Candice Renee Person, MScED | MFA is a mom, organizer, and lifelong educator with over 20 years of experience helping students and teachers thrive. She began her career as a New York City Teaching Fellow, teaching special education to middle schoolers, and later became a school administrator before founding Edututor, where she empowers learners through personalized tutoring and instructional resources rooted in the science of reading. Over the years, she has taught nearly every subject across grades ranging from kindergarten to high school, bringing both breadth and depth to her practice.

Candice also works in community with A Queen’s Narrative, which uplifts women and girls through storytelling and empowerment programs, and with the Anti-Racism Community Organizers (ARCO), a grassroots collective dedicated to dismantling systemic racism. A digital nomad in the making, she will begin a worldschooling journey with her 10-year-old daughter in Mexico in 2026.

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Sept. 30, 2025

The Grief of Leaving, the Liberation of Becoming with Candice Renee Person

In this episode of The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators, Dr. Asia sits down with Candice Renee Person, a 20-year veteran educator, organizer, writer, and soon-to-be digital nomad. Candice shares a deeply layered journey that spans classrooms in New York City, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Virginia, and beyond. Each chapter is shaped by resilience, grief, discovery, and a fierce commitment to both education and commu Candice opens up about her unexpected entry into teaching through the New York City Teaching Fellows program and the steep learning curve of working in special education without adequate preparation or support. She reflects on the vital mentors and assistants who kept her grounded during her toughest first years, and on how family circumstances, especially the loss of her mother, shaped major career moves. Listeners are taken inside her experiences teaching in challenging special education settings, including building a thriving, joyful classroom in an autism…