H. Richard Milner IV is the Helen Faison Professor of Urban Education and director of the Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh School for Education. H. Richard Milner IV is Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Education and professor of education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. A fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Milner delivered the AERA's fifteenth annual Distinguished Brown lecture. He is the editor-in-chief of the Urban Education and editor of Harvard Education Press's Race and Education series.