Alexandria Lee

Alexa (she/her) is a high school English teacher and Instructional Coach in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She has been teaching English in high schools since 2010, starting her career in the Bronx and then moving to downtown Manhattan. She loves teaching in NYC and is grateful for the transformative experiences that come with teaching our NYC students. Her dissertation work lies at the intersection of her dual role as teacher and coach, looking at the ways critical math literacy works to disrupt whiteness in mathematics classrooms. She hopes this is a starting point in interrogating the ways whiteness shows up in disciplinary literacies. Apart from her doctoral work, she is an avid dog-sitter for friends, plant mom, and amateur ceramicist.

Related Professional Experience

• NYU Astor International Travel Fellowship, “Engaging Local Languages and Knowledge in Schools”, Accra, Ghana (2019)

Conference Presentations

• “YA Literature & Critical Pedagogies: Culturally Responsive/Sustaining Practices and Dear Martin”, NCTE 2021 Conference, ELATE-Social Justice Commission Roundtables

• M.S. Adolescent Literacy 5-12, CUNY Hunter College
• B.S. English Education 7-12, New York University

• Disciplinary Literacies
• Critical Whiteness Studies
• Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogies