Ryan Clinesmith Montalvo
Ryan is a master educator with over eleven years of experience with students of all ages. A graduate of Emerson College (BFA), Hunter College (MFA), and a current student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Education Leadership Program (24). Ryan joined Phillips Academy Andover in 2023 as the Project Manager for the Tang Institute. Before joining the Tang Institute, Ryan was Assistant Head of School, Co-Director of the Lower School, and Poet and Writer in Residence at an independent school in New York City where he founded the Global Poetry Consortium. At HGSE, Ryan has worked for the HarvardEd Portal leading undergraduates in push-in after school lessons at the Gardner Pilot Academy. At Making Caring Common, also at HGSE, he drove analytics, marketing, and partnerships for the non-profit’s School Based Initiatives. Ryan was also the Administrative Editor in Chief at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s student run publication The Appian Way. His education related publication credits include the “CultureRX Field Guide”, and HundrED’s “Implement at Scale: An Agenda for Education Innovation Implementation Research”.
As a poet, Ryan’s manuscript Epilogue to Paradise was a finalist for the Letras Latinas-ILS/ND- Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and long listed for the C&R Press 2022 Award. His poems can be found online and in print. Ryan uses his artistic practice in designing multimodal and interdisciplinary workshops and professional developments that advance children’s self-direction as a matter of meaning, purpose, and wellbeing.
Wonderling 