Mark Rivard is not your typical educator. He never went to college. He was not that good a student in high school. And he calls himself "uneducated."

But he has found a way to connect with young people through art and skateboards, and he is disrupting the education system just the way he disrupted the art world.

Rivard, a Longfellow resident, began his art career drawing on skateboards with Sharpie markers in the early 2000s. That led to an international endorsement campaign with Sharpie in 2011. A year later, he launched Do Rad Things, an active lifestyle brand, educational platform, and way of life. He has been inspiring others and doing rad things ever since.