Welcome
In this newsletter I write about the education and labor movements in New York City, with particular attention to issues affecting members of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT). Although this newsletter’s immediate audience is NYC educators, I write for all workers who are seeking dignity and justice. I hope other readers find lesson’s here relevant to their own activism.
I’m a biology teacher in the NYC public schools. I earned my Master’s degree in Science Education from New York University in 2014. Prior, I had been enrolled in the Biochemistry PhD program at the University of Chicago but left in 2013 to pursue teaching. While in Chicago, I helped to organize solidarity support for the Chicago Teachers Union strike of 2012; in many ways, this strike inspired me to become a teacher and union activist. I’ve been politically active since high school, however, during which I organized campaigns against the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and worked as a salt in an effort to organize my workplace.
Throughout the years I’ve written and spoken on a variety of topics, from the roots of gentrification and the political development of James Baldwin, to the role played by Black educators during the UFT’s Ocean Hill-Brownsville strikes of 1968.
In my spare time I watch movies, read, play with my dog, nap with my cat, and travel. I’m also a birder, and occasionally I lead birding events with groups such as the NYC Bird Alliance.
To contact me, shoot me an email.
