Carl Settles Jr. is the Founder/Executive Director of E4 Youth, an Austin, TX based non-profit that bridges the gap between underserved creative youth and creative careers. A former science teacher, Mr. Settles has over 20 years of hands on experience in educational publishing, interactive development and advertising.
Mr. Settles is the architect of Employability Curriculum, which helps classroom educators build stronger relationships with students of color. More recently, Mr. Settles has developed VR Remix Party immersive storytelling curriculum - open source VR/AR tools and workflows that help students tell compelling stories about their lives in minutes. As part of the Intel Foundation's She Will Connect Program, VR Remix party curriculum is being used by Latinitas and other local non-profits to teach 1000's of area youth to code immersive stories about their neighborhoods. His latest venture, Austin Digital Heritage Project, trains and employs college age youth that collect and curate oral histories into a digital archive that can be accessed via virtual and augmented reality tools.
He incorporates digital storytelling, social media, guerrilla filmmaking techniques, mobile technology, theatre arts, music, and a wide array of artistic techniques into a project-based & engaging learning experience for his students. He and his students have collaborated with Mexic-Arte Museum, Forklift Danceworks, VSA Texas, AFP, Green Ribbon Schools, and E4 Youth.