Alex Caputo-Pearl
Alex Caputo-Pearl is UTLA NEA Vice President. He was UTLA President from 2014 – 2020. He is on the steering committee of the NEA Strategic Campaign Institute for Community Schools and is a former member of the AFT Executive Council. Alex taught for 22 years in South LA, mostly at Crenshaw High School, and is one of the founders of Coalition for Educational Justice – LA. He received training in organizing through organizations in the Central American solidarity movement and South Africa divestment movement, and through the Labor/Community Strategy Center, the Bus Riders Union, and the Progressive Educators for Action (PEAC) and Union Power caucuses. Alex received training in Community Schools through the University of Southern California and the Tom and Ethel Bradley Foundation in work on the Extended Learning Cultural Model at Crenshaw High School.
Union Power
In 2014, progressives from the Union Power caucus built on years of their organizing, campaigned hard, and won election to leadership in UTLA — Cecily Myart-Cruz, Betty Forrester, Juan Ramirez, Colleen Schwab, Arlene Inouye, Daniel Barnhart, and Alex Caputo-Pearl.
- We initiated a union transformation project, now continuing under Myart-Cruz’s presidency, that has made UTLA one of the most powerful local unions in the country, and has made deep contributions to the national Red for Ed movement.[1]
Endorsed Marcy Winograd
In 2006 Alex Caputo-Pearl of UTLA former Chapter Chair, Crenshaw HS was a Labor Union Activist endorser of Marcy Winograd of the Los Angeles Progressive Democrats of America in her unsuccessful primary bid for the Democratic Party nomination 26th Congressional District in California[2]
UTLA leadership
Arlene Inouye September 5, 2015
Our unity and diversity makes us strong. — with Daniel Barnhart, Cecily Myart-Cruz, Alex Caputo-Pearl, Betty Forrester, Juan Ramirez and Colleen Schwab.