Evelyn DeJesus, Executive Vice President for American Federation of Teachers

09/14/2025

Today’s Together We Rise Citizenship Clinic at Wilson HS shows the impact of 100 books donated to the students’ Dreamer Center 📚
Pro-bono legal aid from Families beginning the path to U.S. citizenship

09/14/2025

In a time when fear & enforcement dominate the headlines, Together We Rise Citizenship Clinics offer hope. AFT joined El Rescate, Board member Dr. Rivas to help Legal Permanent Residents take the final step toward becoming U.S. citizens. 🇺🇸🗽 Ya Es Hora Ciudadanía! Si Se Puede!

09/01/2025

AFGE & AFT ~ Stand together to speak up. Speak out. Demand more. Workers deserve better—and we WILL take our country back!

09/01/2025

Whether in schools, colleges, hospitals, or public service, America works because of the labor of people who show up every day to serve their communities—not for profit, but for the public good. This Labor Day, let's stand up and say: a future that works for all. Aft Michigan AFT Detroit Federation of Teachers - DFT Local 231

08/21/2025

Greeting from Asia- Peru where AFT is participating in the Regional Meeting of the Education International Latín American Pedagogical Movement.

08/09/2025

Sunday Shenanigans ~ Chicago Teachers Union style at the Bud Billiken Parade which brings community together to celebrate music, culture, art, and our youth. AFT Fedrick Ingram

08/09/2025

AFT at the Bud Billiken Parade with President Stacey Gates, AFT Sec. Treasurer Fedrick Ingram & hundreds of Community Organizations coming together to celebrate the African American Culture.

The Bud Billiken® Parade is more than a procession of bands and floats marching down King Drive, it’s a commemoration of our past and a celebration of our future. Every summer since 1929, “The Bud” has united African-Americans throughout the city of Chicago in music, dance, food, and laughter. It’s one of the only spaces where we can openly and emphatically praise the historic roots that plant us into the South Side of Chicago.

07/28/2025

Hateful rhetoric like Maguire’s has no place in public life—let alone from a leader at one of the world’s most powerful investment firms. This isn’t about politics—it’s about humanity. At a time when antisemitism, Islamophobia and racism are on the rise, real leadership means standing up and speaking out. That’s why we wrote to the regents of UC and UM to demand that they hold Sequoia Capital’s partners to a basic standard of decency.

WASHINGTON—Three of the nation’s top education union leaders are urging the regents of the University of Michigan and the University of California to publicly condemn racist remarks made by Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire, and to hold the firm accountable for its ongoing failure to address...

07/28/2025

At the AFT’s Collective Bargaining Conference July 23 in Washington, D.C., AFT President Randi Weingarten argued that collective bargaining is not only an essential tool for securing better wages and working conditions, but also for enshrining civil rights and defending our basic freedoms at a tim...

07/28/2025

07/27/2025