Who is Mr. B

Teacher/Traveler/Writer

Aryan Bahrambeigi (Mr. B) taught in Fairfax County Virginia’s public schools for more than a decade. He led high schoolers in economics, business management, marketing, and personal finance classes. Born in the United Kingdom, his family returned to their homeland in his youth. They soon endured the turmoil of the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. In 1983, his family escaped and immigrated to the United States to settle in the suburbs of Washington, DC. From his beginnings of working at the family printing shop business, he obtained a bachelor’s in economics and a master’s in international transactions from George Mason University. After a decade of teaching, he attained another graduate degree in international education with a specialization in peace education from Teachers College, Columbia University. 

His passion for traveling, and curiosity about the world, intensified in 1995 after studying abroad in China. He has also participated in graduate-level programs in the United Kingdom, Brazil, Namibia, and South Africa. He earned a place in a graduate student ambassadorship program in Germany, and international teacher fellowships in Germany and Japan. When he began teaching, he transformed his challenging experiences as a teenager into helping students gain confidence and scholarship. Using skills he once lacked and ultimately mastered, his mission became guiding students on the path to their dreams. 

His passion for writing began in his teenage years. In 2004, he wrote a compilation of narrative poems about his experiences as an Iranian American. Through poetry he found his voice to express emotions he had bottled inside for over two decades. Iran has a rich history of literature. Heroes of the Persian culture include notable poets. Writing poetry enabled him to connect to that long tradition and envision a cultural bridge between his homeland and his beloved adopted nation. In 2016, Mr. B set on a journey across America to write a travel narrative about the United States. Be the Road, completed in 2023, will be the author's nonfiction debut, sharing his experiences of traveling to all 50 states. In addition to his diverse roots as an immigrant, the book’s foundation is his travels to more than 40 countries and his belief in peace education.