HIVE 2025

Michelle Yang-Kaczmarek has been an educator for over thirty years and is currently the K-8 Literacy Coordinator and the K-12 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Teacher Leader for a public school in Westchester County, New York. Her love for children and the way they learn started her educational journey as an elementary educator in New York City. She continued to work on her craft as an educator in other school districts in New York where she created responsive and inclusive spaces for children to learn and thrive. Pursuing her passion for teaching literacy, she became a facilitator of adult learning at the state, district and national level knowing she would be able to benefit more children. She has taught graduate and pre-service courses and continues to offer professional development opportunities around literacy and diversity, equity and inclusion through the Edith Winthrop Teacher Center, in which she is also the Policy Board Chairperson. Her biggest joy has been the spaces she has been able to create for children as the co-advisor for the Introduction to Social Justice Club at the elementary school and the Social Justice Alliance Club at the middle school.