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He has offices at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the DuBois Institute in addition to his affiliation with Harvard University. He became the youngest African-American to ever obtain tenure at Harvard in January 2008, at the age of 30.

Fryer is widely considered a rising star at Harvard, having produced several economics-related papers in prestigious academic publications in recent years. In March of 2005, the New York Times published a comprehensive feature on Fryer titled Toward a Unified Theory of Black America.

Fryer's youth was marked by severe hardships, including exposure to narcotics, crime, and parental desertion, as depicted in this painting. Mr. Fryer got an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington and graduated in 2.5 years despite being born into poverty. He subsequently went on to Penn State University to get his Ph.D. in economics.

Fryer has recently stated that he achieved achievement "through the channel of education and via the notion of the mind." Fryer joined Harvard's Economics Department as an assistant professor after completing a three-year fellowship with the Harvard Society of Fellows at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year.

Fryer was also named one of the inaugural Fletcher Foundation Fellows in 2005. Roland Fryer has started work on the Opportunity NYC Project, which will look into how kids in low-performing schools react to financial incentives. Many people are familiar with Roland Fryer's name because of renowned economist Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner's international best-selling book Freakonomics.

Roland Fryer and Steven Levitt worked on some of Freakonomics' most memorable chapters. Several of society's racial mores were disproved by Mr. Fryer and the Freakonomics team. Roland Fryer's lectures are full of intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm, and he never misses a beat. After each of his presentations, clients have consistently expressed their gratitude.