Troy Landrum Jr. is the Continuing Education Coordinator for CCFW. He is a native of Indianapolis, IN and has lived in Seattle, WA for 10 years. Prior to joining CCFW, Troy worked at KUOW Seattle’s NPR station as a Program Producer, Workshop educator and Outreach Specialist. Before his work as a Program Producer at KUOW he has worked in Youth Development for a variety of programs such as CHOOSE 180 and The YMCA Alive and Free.
He has participated in and led mindfulness workshops for the past five years through his work with youth in the journalism and creative arts space. His personal practice of mindfulness deeply influences his youth development work, his writing and his community work as an Oral Historian. Troy is currently a fellow at WA NA WARI’S Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute, a story training program focused on Black Memory https://www.wanawari.org/oral-history.
He graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Washington Bothell in 2021 and is a freelance journalist for the South Seattle Emerald and Novelist.