Join Flatbush DSA Socialist Night School for a community panel on education in NYC!

From PreK to higher ed, what would a socialist vision for education look like? Each session in this series will convene educators, students, parents of students, education activists, and other community members to explore topics including fighting privatization, democratic control, and socialist pedagogy, plus NYC-specific topics like CUNY On Strike and upcoming mayoral and UFT elections.

In this final session, a panel of education workers, experts, students, and activists will discuss the education landscape in NYC today, answering questions from participants. Panelists include:

Mike Fabricant: Mike Fabricant is a Professor at the Hunter College School of Social Work, and former Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare. He has published on the political economy of the welfare state, homelessness, settlement houses, community organizing, the fiscal crisis of non-profit agencies and public education policy. Mike had been a principal officer of the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York, a union of 30,000 faculty and staff for thirteen years. He was a member of the Executive Council of the PSC for twenty one years.

Michael Loeb: Michael Loeb is a lifelong educator, activist, and public school parent. He is currently an adjunct lecturer and the Computer-Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) Coordinator at the Brooklyn College School of Education. Prior to his time at Brooklyn College, Michael worked in the NYC DOE as a bilingual educator and as the senior director of policy and strategy at the Special Education Office.

Martina Meijer: Martina Meijer is a fourth grade teacher and UFT delegate in Brooklyn. She has 17 years of teaching experience and organizes with the MORE-UFT caucus.

Meeks Samuel: Meeks Samuel is a Flatbush DSA member, YDSA organizer and public affairs student at Baruch College, and a consistent liaison for NYS Assembly Member Phara Souffrant Forrest. Meeks currently serves as a YDSA representative on NYC-DSA's Citywide Leadership Committee.

Tajh Sutton: Tajh Sutton is a schools-based arts, activism, and restorative justice organizer. In addition to serving as the communications director of Students Break the Silence, cofounder of the Circle Keepers, and former Community Education Council President in District 14, Tajh is also a choreographer, creative director, curator and communications director that works with schools, districts, youth, parent and community organizations to curate programming and curriculum that centers the stories, cultures, policy demands and lived experiences of young people of color and their families and neighborhoods.

Note for families: Volunteer childcare will be provided upon request - see RSVP form to request.