Alex Caputo-Pearl was a teacher in South Los Angeles for 22 years before being elected United Teachers Los Angeles President (2014-2020) and UTLA NEA VP (2020-2023).  He just finished a year as a Practitioner-in-Residence at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, where he worked with Jane McAlevey, and he currently works as a UTLA member with Los Angeles Unified School District Community Schools.