Bertha Lewis is the Executive Director of ACORN NY and co-chair of the Working Families Party. ACORN is the nation’s largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. Bertha was a key architect of ACORN’s work on public education issues in New York, including establishing three ACORN-run public high schools; halting privatization in the city’s public schools; producing a series of reports documenting pervasive racial and class inequities in the school system that lead to the adoption of significant reforms; and helping lead the successful fight last year to pass a bill to raise the income tax on New York’s wealthiest citizens to increase funding for education. Last year, Bertha won the Gleitsman Foundation Citizen Activist Award at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government for her work to improve the quality of education for New York City schoolchildren.
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