Garret Virchick (he/him) worked for 30 years in the Boston Public Schools. Active in the Boston Teachers Union, he served multiple terms on the union’s Executive Board running as a member of the social justice caucus BTU For All. While serving as editor of the Boston Union Teacher newspaper, he won multiple awards for his writing from the American Federation of Teachers Communicators Network, including an Excellence Award for his series “Exposing the Man Behind the Curtain: What’s Behind Education Reform.” Currently he is retired from teaching, but active in the International Work Team of Liberation Road.