Staff Bios

Staff

Sally Lee is the founding Executive Director of Teachers Unite. A native New Yorker, and the product of private and public schools, she has been working in education and in the nonprofit sector for most of her life. Her experiences as both a New Yorker and the daughter of a multiracial (African American and Caucasian) marriage led to an early interest in equity and social justice. After graduating from Wesleyan University with a BA in African American Studies and American Studies and Bank Street College with an M.S.Ed. in Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Sally taught 5th/6th grade for two years in a Lower East Side public school. There she became passionate about the idea of starting an organization that would support and sustain teachers committed to social justice activism while energizing them to take back their union. An early member of NYCoRE (New York Collective of Radical Educators) for many years, she saw a need for an institution that could support the leadership development of teacher activists who were trying to make progressive, if not radical, changes in education and society. She loves the work of making that vision a reality. Sally is the Manhattan Borough President appointee to the District One Community Education Council serving the L.E.S./East Village (where she lives with her husband Josh and son Zachary).

Steering Committee and Board Members

(Biographies to be posted)

Irene Baigorri

Josh Heisler

Herm Jerome

Sally Lee

Jessica Shiller