Bryon Pierson Jr.
Bryon Pierson Jr.
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Technologist | Higher Ed | Student Housing
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
I build systems that help students stay enrolled, housed, and successful.
I’m the Founder & CEO of EDUrain, a higher education technology company building infrastructure at the intersection of student housing, student success, and institutional technology.
EDUrain works with colleges and universities to improve how students navigate housing and access critical resources. Our work combines technology, institutional partnerships, data, and student-centered design around a simple idea: students cannot succeed academically if their basic needs and housing are unstable.
As CEO, I lead university partnerships, enterprise business development, product strategy, fundraising, implementation, and stakeholder engagement across Housing & Residence Life, Student Affairs, Enrollment Management, IT, Procurement, and executive leadership.
My path to this work has been interdisciplinary from the beginning. I started college studying pre-nursing, where I became interested in health, human development, and the systems that shape individual well-being. I later studied Political Science and Psychology, expanding that perspective to institutions, public policy, behavior, and how systems affect communities.
As a former foster youth and self-funded college graduate, these questions are also personal. I experienced firsthand how housing instability, financial barriers, and complicated institutional systems can affect whether a student makes it to graduation.
Today, I’m pursuing graduate studies through DePaul University’s Interdisciplinary Self-Designed Program, focusing on housing policy, urban systems, public policy, entrepreneurship, and higher education.
EDUrain and my entrepreneurial work have been recognized through Techstars, Black Ambition, the Rice Business Plan Competition, the Regnier Venture Creation Challenge, F6S, and DePaul’s Purpose Pitch Competition. In 2024, EDUrain was also featured in Times Square through a national campaign with Brex and Techstars.
The bigger question behind my work is: How do we build institutions, policies, and technologies that make opportunity easier to access—not harder to navigate?
For now, I’m focused on growing EDUrain, expanding university partnerships, and helping more students find stable housing, remain enrolled, and graduate.
I’m the Founder & CEO of EDUrain, a higher education technology company building infrastructure at the intersection of student housing, student success, and institutional technology.
EDUrain works with colleges and universities to improve how students navigate housing and access critical resources. Our work combines technology, institutional partnerships, data, and student-centered design around a simple idea: students cannot succeed academically if their basic needs and housing are unstable.
As CEO, I lead university partnerships, enterprise business development, product strategy, fundraising, implementation, and stakeholder engagement across Housing & Residence Life, Student Affairs, Enrollment Management, IT, Procurement, and executive leadership.
My path to this work has been interdisciplinary from the beginning. I started college studying pre-nursing, where I became interested in health, human development, and the systems that shape individual well-being. I later studied Political Science and Psychology, expanding that perspective to institutions, public policy, behavior, and how systems affect communities.
As a former foster youth and self-funded college graduate, these questions are also personal. I experienced firsthand how housing instability, financial barriers, and complicated institutional systems can affect whether a student makes it to graduation.
Today, I’m pursuing graduate studies through DePaul University’s Interdisciplinary Self-Designed Program, focusing on housing policy, urban systems, public policy, entrepreneurship, and higher education.
EDUrain and my entrepreneurial work have been recognized through Techstars, Black Ambition, the Rice Business Plan Competition, the Regnier Venture Creation Challenge, F6S, and DePaul’s Purpose Pitch Competition. In 2024, EDUrain was also featured in Times Square through a national campaign with Brex and Techstars.
The bigger question behind my work is: How do we build institutions, policies, and technologies that make opportunity easier to access—not harder to navigate?
For now, I’m focused on growing EDUrain, expanding university partnerships, and helping more students find stable housing, remain enrolled, and graduate.
