BIOGRAPHY
Lee Schere
Lee Schere is an activist and educator living and working in New York City, where he’s the Director of Teaching & Learning for K-16 Initiatives at the City University of New York. His work expands teaching capacity among high school teachers and university professors at these two levels of public education in New York through curriculum development and professional learning. His freely available curriculum, “Debating U.S. History,” brings inquiry and critical pedagogy to the US history high school survey class. As a queer social justice activist and transman, Lee has joined a variety of organizations, affinity groups, and everything in between, some specifically LGBTQ+ and others more or less marginal progressive organizations. More recently he has volunteered with the organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and as a board member for the podcast and organization Making Gay History.