About the Author

Mr. Lynch has experience as a professional educator, grant reviewer, grant writer, and author. He is currently employed as an Exceptional Education Teacher at Sykes Elementary School and is the CEO of Lynch Consulting Group, LLC. Lynch Consulting Group, LLC, is a comprehensive consulting firm that provides innovative educational & business consulting solutions to K-12 & Higher Education institutions, nonprofit organizations, various levels of government, as well as members of the business sector.

He is also a Doctoral Candidate at Jackson State University majoring in Early Childhood Education, with a cognate in Educational Administration. He is also the author of Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap, and an upcoming children’s book, entitled Matthew and the Money Tree. Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap was published on April 1, 2006. Mr. Lynch is a contributing columnist for Emerging Minds, an online magazine devoted to uplifting the African American community, Blagazine, and the Black Surburban Journal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also the founder of Project E.P.I.P.H.A.N.Y, a research based mentoring program. Born and raised in Mississippi, he currently resides in Jackson, Mississippi.