Jessica Tang is the President of AFT Massachusetts, representing over 25,000 educators, librarians, health and public service workers. She was also the President of the Boston Teachers Union from 2017 to 2024, representing over 10,000 active and retired educators. She was the first person of color and first openly LGBTQ+ person to serve in both roles. She is a co-founder of the Teacher Activist Group-Boston, Boston Education Justice Alliance and MA Education Justice Alliance, and serves as a board member for several civic and labor groups including Citizens for Public Schools, Private Industry Council, , Parent Teacher Home Visit Project and the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. She also the first Asian American member to serve on the American Federation of Teachers Executive Council and is the founding chair of AFT’s AANHPI Task Force.
Jessica serves as a Vice President of both the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and American Federation of Teachers-Massachusetts, and is a former co-chair of the Massachusetts Asian-American Educators Association. She is also currently serving on the United States Commission on Civil Rights Massachusetts State Advisory Council and served a three-year term on the New England Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve. As a teacher-activist, she has been involved in many different community organizations that are working to advance racial, social and economic justice. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at Harvard University and holds an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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