Albert Shanker Institute
LEO CASEY is Executive Director of the Albert Shanker Institute, a think tank affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. Previously, he served as Vice President for Academic High Schools for the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), New York City’s 200,000-person-strong teacher union. As Vice President, he taught a class in Global Studies every day at Bard High School Early College in Manhattan. Casey has won several awards for his teaching, and was named the National Social Studies Teacher of the Year by the American Teacher Awards in 1992. He has worked with teacher unions and teachers in Russia, Tanzania, and China on the development of civics education. Casey has written extensively on civics, education, unionism, and politics. Casey attended Antioch College in Ohio, the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and the University of Toronto in Canada, where he earned a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy.

Leo M. Casey - 2013
Leo M. Casey - 1951