Justis Lopez

Justis Lopez (also known as DJ Faro) is the founder and Chief Enthusiasm Officer (CEO) of Just Experience LLC, a start up company that strives to educate, entertain and empower communities across the world. As a community organizer he focuses on ways to create spaces of radical joy, justice & possibility through the arts. He is currently is pursuing his M.S.ED degree in Educational Entrepreneurship at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an adjunct professor at Stephen F. Austin University teaching multicultural education, and strategic project consultant at the Council for Opportunity in Education where he focuses on supporting national efforts for first generation, low-income college students apart of the TRIO federal programs. Before this role he was a social studies teacher in the Bronx and a guest lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University focusing on incorporating hip-hop as a pedagogical practice in schools. When Justis isn’t teaching he can be found DJing or dancing down the street. He enjoys long hikes, funfetti cupcakes, and long walks on the beach.