Author of eight books-most recently; Organizing for Educational Justice (2010), Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education (2012) and The Changing Politics of Education: Privatization and the Dispossessed LIves Left Behind (2013) Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Treasurer of the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York (2006-2015). Primary responsibility is helping to build the architecture for organizing campaigns. President and founding member of the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless, . Founding member and past board member of New Jersey Right to Housing and Brand New Day ( a housing creation agency). Past treasurer of the National Coalition for the Homeless