Howard University Professor and Political Science Department Chair Ravi K. Perry is running as an openly gay candidate for the at-large seat on the D.C.
State Board of Education in the city’s Nov. 3 election. Perry, who contacted the Washington Blade about his candidacy this week, is the third out gay candidate running this year for a seat on the nonpartisan, nine-member elected D.C.
State Board of Education. Among the five other at-large candidates with whom Perry is competing for the at-large seat is gay education advocate Mysiki Valentine, who has worked as a teacher, instructional coach, summer reading specialist, and tutor-mentor for students, parents, and other teachers across the East Coast, according to his campaign website.