Riley's work began with watching his sister, a creative artist, fall through the cracks of an education system built for students who learned the way he did.

She was not less intelligent. She was intelligent in a different way. If mathematics had been taught through color, composition, Monet, or Van Gogh, she might have had a path that met her where she was. Instead, a one-size-fits-all curriculum made her struggle feel personal.

That experience shaped the next decade of Riley's career and the mission behind ryco: personalize learning before the consequences ripple into confidence, college, careers, and the shape of a person's life.