CHICAGO – DeRay Mckesson’s voice as a leading Black Lives Matter agitator is apparently in high demand.

Just a few months after accepting a job as Baltimore City Public Schools’ chief of human capital in late June, Mckesson is dashing off to the Windy City to serve as a fellow at The University of Chicago Institute of Politics, the school announced this week.

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“With so much interest in issues of policing and criminal justice on campus and around the country, the opportunity to hear from a prominent activist such as DeRay Mckesson was one that we felt would prove insightful and valuable,” IOP Executive Director Steve Edwards told The Maroon, the independent student newspaper.

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises was also hoping to tap Mckesson’s “experience” when she tapped him to head up staff recruitment in the district at the end of June. The job came with a $165,000 annual salary and put the 31-year-old in charge of 56 employees and a $4 million budget.

Mckesson made himself famous through the Black Lives Matter movement after he took a leave of absence from his job at Minneapolis Public School to protest the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. More recently, Mckesson ran a last minute campaign for mayor of Baltimore and was beaten badly, coming in sixth in the Democratic primary with only 2.6 percent of the vote, according to The Baltimore Sun.

The Baltimore native is popular on Twitter with about 420,000 followers, and his focus on police brutality and racial tensions have made him the darling of liberal elites like President Obama and Hillary Clinton, “who dubbed Mckesson a ‘social media emperor,’” according to the news site.

In the few days between Mckesson’s hire at Baltimore schools and when he actually started work, the social justice warrior was arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana during a protest over a police shooting of Alton Sterling, who is black.

Mckesson explained away the misdemeanor charge when he was released from jail days later by telling the school board “the arrest was unlawful,” Fox Baltimore reports.

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The American Mirror also exposed Mckesson’s ties to liberal kingmakers.

Documents filed in Mckesson’s run for mayor show he lives with James and Robin Wood, wealthy liberal philanthropists who serve on the board of George Soros’ Open Society Institute, a massive $1.5 billion “charity” that funds liberal causes.

According to The Maroon:

In the announcement of the Fellows, the IOP noted that Mckesson’s seminars will be part of a larger discussion in its programming this year examining different strategies for effecting social change.

Though Mckesson has significant experience as a public schools administrator, he has also participated in protests and community building activities in Ferguson, Baton Rouge, and his hometown of Baltimore.

This is the first time the IOP has featured a Black Lives Matter activist in such a prominent role; however, it won’t be the first time it’s had Black Lives Matter activists in its living room. In February, guest speaker Anita Alvarez left the IOP without finishing her lecture after being confronted by protesters with Black Lives Matter.

Some students on campus applauded the IOP for responding to their cries about a “lack of inclusivity” in the fellowship program.

“IOP thinks (Mckesson’s) presence reflects that the IOP has heard student concerns about a lack of diversity in the programing, and is making steps to remedy this disconnect,” senior Chase Woods said.

The Maroon reports Mckesson previously spent a summer at The University of Chicago as a Mellon Undergraduate Fellow participating in the Committee on Social Thought.

“Institutions of higher learning are different faces of thought. They’re not better, not worse, they’re different,” Mckesson told the news site. “As someone who has been an organizer for a long time … it’s important that we think critically in as many places as we can be and be exposed to the world.”