Member Directory

Grace Pai is the director of organizing at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago. Grace has spent the last five years organizing in Chicago and training hundreds of organizers and community leaders across the country.

Stacy Moore is the Executive Director of Educators for Excellence-Chicago. She began her career as a high school reading teacher on Chicago’s south side and obtained a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.

Karla Raigoza-Galvan is a proud mom of two and works for Catalyst Maria, one of two schools in the Catalyst Schools network in Chicago.

Tiana Kubik has a Bachelor of Science in Family Community Services from Michigan State University and a Master of Science in Early Childhood Education from the Erikson Institute, in Chicago. Tiana was a teacher for Pre-K-Kindergarten for almost ten years. Tiana now works full-time running a Chicago-based photography company with her husband, with both my kids in tow for the last seven years. They have been homeschooling/unschooling their children, ages 3 and 7 years old, since 2018. For the last year they have been exploring North America through living and traveling in a self-converted 2016 Sprinter Van. Follow along at their unschooling and travel adventures at @usalongtheway.

Shayla Ewing is an English and drama teacher at Pekin Community High School in Pekin, Illinois and a 2019-20 Teach Plus Illinois Policy Fellow.

Patty Hernandez has taught middle school English Language Arts in Chicago Public Schools for the past 22 years, in the Pilsen, Avondale, Little Village, Gage Park and now Back of the Yards neighborhoods. She is also mom to a high school freshman and a sixth-grader.

Lindsay Singer is a third-grade mathematics and inquiry teacher at Chavez Elementary School, in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood. She is a Teach for America alumna and a graduate of the University of Chicago’s Urban Teacher Education Program.

Josh Stewart is a digital media manager with brightbeam, a nonprofit network of education activists demanding a better education and a brighter future for every child. In 2013, Josh earned his bachelor's in political science and Hispanic studies from St. John's University in Minnesota. He then taught in South Korea and the Philippines before joining brightbeam.

After teaching for seven years in the Brighton Park neighborhood, Kyle Schulte then transitioned into school leadership and has been the assistant principal at James Monroe Elementary the past four years. Kyle has updated the Second Step curriculum, secured Calm Classrooms curriculum, added daily Together Time minutes, and focused on a restorative approach to discipline.

Kyle holds a Master of Educational Leadership degree from Northeastern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois State University. He enjoys jogging, reading, traveling (12 countries and counting!), and exploring his favorite city in the world, Chicago.