Lea Serena for Vice President
@Miss_Serena2 

• BPS Alumni 

• 9 year teacher

• AFT Delegate 

• Contract Negotiation Team Member 

• Building Rep Regional Leader 

• 6 year Building Representative 

• Co chair of the Educator’s Committee for the Black Educators Alliance of Massachusetts 

Lea Serena is a second grade teacher at the Mather Elementary School in Dorchester, the same school she attended as a student.  Lea is a 9-year veteran educator, the past 6 years in the Boston Public Schools.  She started her BPS career at the Lee Academy Pilot school in Dorchester, where she taught 1st and 2nd grade and served on their Governing Board and Instructional Leadership team.  Currently at the Mather, she serves as a member of the School Site Council, the Instructional Leadership Team, and the School Culture Team.  As a former student at the Mather, Lea is deeply committed to ensuring that her students are given every opportunity to succeed. She cares deeply about racial equity and adequate funding for public schools. 

One of Lea’s deepest passions is recruiting and retaining teachers of color. Lea has served as a Lead Fellow for the Department of Education’s InSpired Fellowship (In-Service Professionals who are committed to Increasing the Racial and Ethnic Diversity of our teacher workforce), as well as a fellow for Boston Public Schools Recruitment Office. She is also a member of the ALANA planning committee and Co-Chair of the Educator’s Committee of the BEAM ( Black Educators Alliance of Massachusetts). 

Lea has been a BTU Building Representative for 5 years, and has served on the BTU Negotiating Team for two contracts.  She is an AFT delegate and presented at the AFT Convention in 2019. She also received the 2019 AFT MA Distinguished Service Award for a Member 35 or Younger. The mother of a 10-year-old, Lea co-facilitates the Parent/Caregiver Educator support group. She has participated in the BTU Inquiry Project,  the AFT Teacher Leadership Policy Program, and BTU’s Professional Learning Advisory Board.