Annie Tan is a special education teacher in Sunset Park in Brooklyn and a member of the Movement of Rank and File Teachers (MORE) in New York City. She has been a part of the NYC public school system since 2016 but started teaching in 2011, as part of Teach For America at a charter school in Chicago. She transferred to a public school and started organizing with Chicago’s CORE caucus, which won leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union in 2010. She was co-chair of the special education committee of the CTU for two years.
"No One Is Coming to Save Us"
Against the Current No. 211, March/April 2021