Dion Turner Email and Phone Number

Turner has always loved the arts and literature. He at one time considered the life an artist. At the age of 14 he along with then popular dance group, the International Outstanding Unit (I.O.U.) danced at the world famous Apollo Theater and choreographed shows for the likes of Diana Ross, the late Heavy D. and Salt-N-Pepa. He was also member of the legendary Hip-Hop super-group the Juice Crew All-Stars, as a dancer for Master Ace. While in high school he established the first African-American Heritage Club, successfully petitioned to have African-American History added as an elective course at James Madison, in Brooklyn. Two years after graduating from Lincoln University, in 1997, he was able to secure a recording contract for his classmate with Andre “Dr. Dre” Young’s then fledging label, Aftermath Entertainment. During his tenure with both Aftermath and Interscope he formed a partnership with his producer to create the popular and now renowned And 1 Mix Tape of which a television program was created. This product changed the way apparel and basketball is marketed globally to the youth.After successfully navigating a depressed sports apparel market in 2006 and co-managing Tony Award winning Def Poetry Jam Poet, Black Ice, he surprisingly no longer felt fulfillment from industry. In 2008 he was accepted into the New York City Teaching Fellows Program, an initiative created by Mayor Bloomberg’s Administration. In 2010, he received his Masters in Education and is currently establishing The EDUstry an educational program geared at teaching children between the ages of 11-18 various industries, as well as financial literacy. He is the sum total of his experiences which have given him purpose and reason to alter education and politics.Turner currently resides in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn with his three boys and teaches in Brownsville.