Edward Doyle-Gillespie is a walking stereotype buster who shatters assumptions among his colleagues and in his community. First headed toward a career in academia where he could study history, literature, and philosophy, the events of 9/11 redirected his path and he became a Baltimore City police officer where he now teaches community policing, ethics, and counterterrorism. In his department Ed found that he neither fit the stereotype of what many would presume a Black man in Baltimore might be, nor does he fit many of the stereotypes of police officers in general. Neither fish, nor fowl, Ed has chosen to learn, to grow, and to bring his own values and experiences to his work in his day job at the police academy, which still fulfills that original mission of protecting people from bad guys, while still writing and publishing poetry including Masala Tea and Oranges and On the Later Addition of Sancho Panza.