jeremy chan-kraushar
Jeremy began his career as an English and Math teacher for students with learning disabilities in a public middle/high school in Brooklyn. He has a B.A. in Sociology and Film Studies from Bowdoin College, a M.Ed, Special Education from Hunter College School of Education, a M.P.A. with focus areas in public policy and public administration from the O’Neill School for Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, and a J.D. at CUNY School of Law with a focus in civil rights and education.
He most recently served as the Senior Director of Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education (CRSE) for the Office of Equity and Access at NYC Public Schools. He has coordinated, managed, and developed multiple initiatives and programs for NYC Public Schools including Connected Foundations, Digital Ready, the Competency Collaborative, and the department’s historic Implicit Bias Awareness Initiative. He was lead designer in the Implicit Bias Awareness initiative’s hybrid asynchronous and live remote workshop modules and NYC Public Schools’ CRSE Modules, and founded the Citywide CRSE Professional Learning Community, a group of over 100 school and district equity teams (in partnership with The Metro Center at New York University). He has personally facilitated workshops in-person and virtually for over 10,000 educators.
Presentations
Jeremy has presented at SXSW Edu (‘16, ‘17, ‘18), Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color (COSEBOC) Conference (‘18), Aurora Institute Symposium (formerly iNACOL) (‘17 ‘18), NYC Transfer School Conference (‘17), Digital Media and Learning Conference (‘15) and alongside KnowledgeWorks. He has presented workshops and training materials on diversity, equity, belonging, inclusion, and anti-racism throughout the country.
Publications and Features
His work has been featured in the New York Times, CityLimits, AMNY, ChalkbeatNY, New York DailyNews, The Hechinger Report, EdWeek, Getting Smart, Students at the Center Hub, Education Reimagined, NYU Metro Center Blog, Phi Delta Kappan, CompetencyWorks, Springpoint Schools, and Re-Center Magazine.
Legal Experience
Jeremy is admitted to practice law in the State of New York, 2nd Department. In his legal career, Jeremy has worked on housing justice in NYC with Communities Resist, on disability advocacy within ICE detention centers (Fraihat v. ICE) with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Disability Rights Advocates, and Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, on data disaggregation and special education advocacy with the Asian American Law Fund of New York (AALFNY) and the Coalition of Asian American Families and Students (CACF), on guardianship representation and advocacy with the Disability and Aging Justice Clinic at CUNY School of Law, and on legal research on affirmative action with the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice.
awards and fellowships
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cuny school of law 2021 public interest grant recipient
in 2021, jeremy was awarded a grant to research the intersections of the law and affirmative action policies.
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asian american law fund of new york (AALFNY) 2020 public interest fellow
jeremy was selected as one of four scholarship recipients from AALFNY, which enabled him to work on a multi-faceted project regarding research and legislative support for Asian American data disaggregation and special education.
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sorensen center for international peace and justice 2020 fellow
jeremy was a 2020 sorensen center for international peace and justice fellow, focusing his research on race, education, and the law.
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coalition for asian american children and families (CACF) 2020 fellow
jeremy worked with CACF in 2020 on special education and data disaggregation legal advocacy. in 2022, jeremy joined CACF to speak at a virtual data briefing on the process of using NY’s freedom of information law (FOIL) to help push for greater data access for marginalized communities.