Cheryl Coney

Cheryl Coney is the Executive Director of United Teachers Los Angeles. She has more than 17 years of experience in community and union organizing. She has spent the last decade organizing alongside educators in roles at the National Education Association and most recently the California Teachers Association (CTA). She also served as the project director for the Union Women’s Leadership Education Project and as a labor educator at The Washington State Labor Education and Research Center (WA LERC). Cheryl holds a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Political Science and History from Rutgers University and a Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Washington. She also served on the national board of the United Association for Labor Education (UALE). Cheryl resides in Los Angeles with her partner, their two daughters and boxer Floyd.