Rylan Sekiguchi is a Curriculum Specialist for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). Prior to joining SPICE in 2005, he worked as a teacher and tutor at Revolution Prep in San Francisco.
Rylan's professional interests lie in curriculum design, interdisciplinary learning, education technology, and teacher professional development. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.
He has authored or co-authored the following curriculum units for SPICE: Along the Silk Road; China in Transition: Economic Development, Migration, and Education; Divided Memories: Comparing History Textbooks in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States; An Examination of War Crimes Tribunals; Inter-Korean Relations: Rivalry, Reconciliation, and Reunification; The Mongol Empire; Storytelling of Indigenous Peoples in the United States; Sustainable Development and Modern China; U.S.–South Korean Relations; Uncovering North Korea; and 10,000 Shovels: China's Urbanization and Economic Development.
Rylan has also been actively engaged in media-related work for SPICE. In addition to serving as producer for two films, My Cambodia and My Cambodian America, he has developed several web-based materials, including an online trading game for middle-school students.
Rylan has presented teacher seminars across the country at venues such as the World Affairs Council, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Art Institute of Chicago, and for various organizations such as the National Council for the Social Studies, the International Baccalaureate Organization, the African Studies Association, and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. He has also conducted presentations internationally for the East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools in Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia; for the European Council of International Schools in Spain, France, and Portugal; and at Yonsei University in South Korea.
In 2010 and 2015, Rylan received the Franklin Buchanan Prize, which is awarded annually by the Association for Asian Studies to honor an outstanding curriculum publication on Asia at any educational level, elementary through university.
