Accomplishments

Association Leadership/Representative Roles

  • Secretary-Treasurer, New Jersey Education Association
  • President, Wayne Education Association
  • Executive Board Member, Passaic County Education Associations
  • Chairperson, Congressional Contact Committee – New Jersey Education Association
  • Delegate Assembly Member – Ethnic Minority At Large, New Jersey Education Association
  • Representative Assembly Member, National Education Association

Previous/Concurrent Roles

  • Negotiations Team Member, Wayne Education Association
  • Professional Rights & Responsibilities Team Member, Wayne Education Association
  • PR/Communications, Wayne Education Association
  • UniServ Consultant, New Jersey Education Association
  • Union School Participant, New Jersey Education Association
  • Congressional Lobbyist, Congressional Contact Committee
  • Various Committees, New Jersey Education Association

Accolades/Opportunities

  • Senate Appropriations Committee Testimony, New Jersey Senate 2010 (Audio)
  • Education Nation, Teacher Town Hall 2011 (Video)
  • Congressman Pascrell Educational Task Force (Congressional Letter)
  • “I am NJEA” Video Message, NJEA (Video)
  • Summer Leadership Conference Message, NJEA 2011 (Video)
  • Teacher for a Day – Multiple Program Use

Education

  • MS, Ramapo College – New Jersey
  • BA, Rutgers College – Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
    – Captain, Rutgers Men’s Ice Hockey

Conferences/Learning Symposiums

  • Summer Leadership Conferences, New Jersey Education Association
  • Northeast Leadership Conferences, National Education Association
  • Teachers’ Convention, New Jersey Education Association
  • Winter Leadership Conferences, New Jersey Education Association
  • School of Management and Labor Relations Conferences, Rutgers University
  • Eagleton Institute of Politics Sessions – Rutgers University

Teaching

  • High School Science Teacher
  • Mentor
  • Cooperating Teacher
  • High School Ice Hockey Coach