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Richard "Lennon" Audrain

Teacher, Mesa School District Board president of the National Association of Community College Teacher Education
Arizona State University

Richard “Lennon” Audrain teaches Education Professions, a CTE grow-your-own program designed to introduce high schoolers to careers in the education profession, at Skyline High School in Mesa Public Schools. Recently, he defended his dissertation, which explored the genealogy of and conceptual and empirical evidence for the Next Education Workforce initiative from Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Before pursuing his doctorate, Lennon taught Latin, Spanish, and English in Arizona and Massachusetts.



Audrain’s research interests explore teacher recruitment and preparation through (a) high school-based grow-your-own programs and (b) community college teacher education programs. He also explores how human capital management systems can enable schools to build team-based staffing models with new roles and responsibilities for educators.



Audrain is an enrolled citizen of both the Cherokee Nation and Shawnee Tribe. He was the youngest graduate from both his master’s classes at Arizona State University and Harvard University. He earned his first master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from Arizona State University at age 19 and his second master’s degree in technology, innovation, and education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education at age 21.

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