Membership

The DemocracyReady NY Coalition is convened by the Center for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University. Our members include  educators, academics, education stakeholder groups, youth leaders, civic education practitioners, youth-development specialists, parents, civic leaders, and advocates. 

We strive to represent the entire state and be multigenerational, politically inclusive, and racially and socioeconomically diverse. We prioritize memberhsip recruitment to meet these goals. 

Alliance for Quality Education

Angelo Del Toro Puerto Rica/Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute 

Capital Region Institute for Human Rights 

Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook

Citizens' Committee for Children

Citizens Union

Common Cause New York

DoSomething.org

Democracy Prep Public Schools

Facing History and Ourselves

Generation Citizen

Inquiring Minds Institute 

League of Women Voters NYC

League of Women Voters NYS

Media Literacy Now New York

Mikva Challenge

New York Library Association (NYLA)

New York State Council for the Social Studies

New York State Council of School Superintendents 

New York Historical Society

New York State Grange

New York State Parent Teacher Association

New York State School Boards Association

New York State United Teachers

Next Generation Politics

Project Look Sharp

Rural Schools Association

School Library Systems Association of New York

The City College of New York

The Education Trust-New York

United Federation of Teachers

Westchester Putnam School Boards Association

Women Creating Change

Youth Civics Initiative

YVote

Gail Ehrlich, NYC DOE Teacher/Law Coach (retired)

Shira Epstein, The City College of New York

Lisa Kissinger, Shenendehowa Central Schools

Brett Levy, University at Albany, SUNY

Ioana Literat, Teachers College, Columbia University

John McNally, Horace Mann School

Jenny Osowski, Otselic Valley Central School District

Beth C. Rubin, Teachers College, Columbia University

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

Laura Smith, Teachers College, Columbia University

Barbara Stripling, Syracuse University 

Paul Tomizawa, Scarsdale Public Schools 

William Yang, Scarsdale Public Schools 

Youth Members 

Leila Adelstein, Latham, NY

Olivia Bernier, East Irondequoit/Rochester, NY

Zachary Carino, Westbury, NY 

Martine Dosa, Syracuse, NY

Ava Fung, Brooklyn, NY

Ashley Erin Holness, New Rochelle & Albany, NY 

Chris Kobara, Manhattan, NY

Jhan Motta, Queens, NY

Anna Potekhin, East Setauket, NY 

Kiera Reilly, Guilderland, NY

Azmira Suljic, Syracuse, NY

Chyanne Swain, Mount Vernon, NY